From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 21:32:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1iE1bQ-0002sm-Rq@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh84xhihk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:25:07 -0400)
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> I expect that the overwhelming majority of the users don't want to see
> the C source, but then, the vast majority of computer users use
> proprietary software.
> I think Emacs should (and does) really make a special effort to go out
> of its way to encourage users to access the source code.
I think it is enough to help users look at the source code
once they decide to download it.
If you build and run Emacs uninstalled, this works automatically. We
could fairly easily make it more convenient for those who run
installed Emacs and unpack the corresponding source in their home
directories.
To go further than that would do no harm, but it could be a lot of
work. I suggest that people do the work if they want to.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-28 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 20:37 Install C source code for for debugging help Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 6:13 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 14:24 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 4:03 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 17:04 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-27 22:45 ` Fu Yuan
2019-09-28 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-28 2:14 ` Michael Rohleder
2019-09-27 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-28 1:32 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-09-28 2:06 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-09-27 15:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 15:47 ` David Ringo
2019-09-27 8:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-28 18:19 Angelo Graziosi
2019-09-29 6:56 ` Paul Eggert
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