From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation. Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:32:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k2nnk73w.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb72a924.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aI23i-0006Ve-32 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2016 17:32:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aI23h-0005F7-0g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2016 17:32:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87vb72a924.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Federico Beffa skribis: >> MIT Scheme is a complex system and without the documentation it's not >> possible to use it proficiently. > > Agreed, I didn=E2=80=99t mean to imply we should give up on documentation= . > > I just realized that its documentation is in Texinfo format. What about > simply installing the Info format like we do for other GNU packages, and > not the PDF/PS/DVI version? Texinfo is great for looking up pieces of information in a reference manual. However, when it comes to reading a sizable part, I much prefer PDFs with a much superior graphic quality and scaling capability and would like to keep it (my eyes aren't in great conditions). I think we can drop PS. DVI is not installed. HTML is required by 'emacs-mit-scheme-doc'. Regards, Fede