Re: Contributing to Emacs

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2022 at 1:25 AM
> From: "Robert Pluim" <rpluim@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, jaopaulolc@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs
>
> >>>>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 15:11:29 +0200, Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> said:
> 
>     >> Only when youʼre building from a git checkout, in which case you
>     >> should read INSTALL.REPO, which has that step.
>     >> 
>     >> Robert
>  
>     Christopher> @Robert.  I would then suggest to include what INSTALL and INSTALL.REPO
>     Christopher> are meant for immediately at the beginning of README.
> 
> Line 8 of README:
> 
>     The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
>     Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the
>     entire Emacs file tree.
> 
> although perhaps that 'checked out' bit should be removed or refer to
> INSTALL.REPO.
> 
> Robert

I would remove it as you suggest.

Had thought about having something like this, easy and simple.  

The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
Emacs on various systems, once you have downloaded an Emacs Release
file tree.

The file INSTALL.REPO in this directory says how to build and install GNU
Emacs after downloading the development sources hosted on Savannah.