From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:46:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200912011947.nB1JlaAp027561@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912030748.nB37m5V4022253@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87k4x431n2.fsf@telefonica.net> <200912030907.nB39781X022853@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <873a3s2cp9.fsf@telefonica.net> <87my1z2a6h.fsf@telefonica.net> <200912031848.nB3ImpMj027352@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87aaxz287w.fsf@telefonica.net> <200912031917.nB3JHnKX027584@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87my1zzqxq.fsf@telefonica.net> <200912032257.nB3Mv97m029382@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87d42vvabf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200912040147.nB41ldTH000836@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87hbs7zbs2.fsf@telefonica.net> <200912042118.nB4LIS4j009931@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <878wdiz9hz.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260416825 16479 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2009 03:47:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:47:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Martin Pool Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 04:46:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NIZzV-0004kp-DG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:46:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIZzV-0002Ep-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:46:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIZzQ-0002EM-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIZzM-0002Be-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39513 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIZzL-0002BU-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:46:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:40167 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NIZzL-0001ux-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:46:47 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApwEAIv9H0tMCpT8/2dsb2JhbACBS9N7hCwEgxeHBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,372,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="51233449" Original-Received: from 76-10-148-252.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.148.252]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 09 Dec 2009 22:46:46 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0F8268065; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:46:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Martin Pool's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:16:09 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118510 Archived-At: > We talked about texinfo documentation at the time of accession to GNU. > I understand the value in having every GNU program consistent but > texinfo is not very technically easy given our platform and the > technical environment of 2009, and in my opinion not a good use > of time. I have no idea what you're referring to. We all know that Texinfo is not as sexy as HTML and has its share of shortcomings, but it does its job fairly well and has several features still mostly unmatched by any other format (especially when accessed via an Info viewer such as the one in Emacs). I think the question shouldn't be "should we do provide Texinfo", but "how are we going to do it". > However, if someone has an idea by which we can for example produce > texinfo as an output, we will look at it. Not knowing exactly how you generate your documentation, it's hard for me to help, but at least if you can generate docbook output (which you supposedly can from ReST), you can pass it on to docbook2x to get Texinfo output. Or maybe Pandoc can do it better straight from ReST to Texinfo. Stefan