Re: INFO on add-ons

[David A. Cobb]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> > > > > > "David" == David A Cobb <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > >            
>
>    David> I have no concept of anyone coercing a contributer in any
>    David> regard - it'll cost you at least $30.00/hr to coerce /me/.
>
> Oh, I think requiring revision of a patch because it has sucky
> docstrings is both reasonable and coercive, and I doubt you would send
> me a bill.  More like, "good grief, how could _I_ forget that!"  :-)
Yes, indeed!

>    David> But it would be a considerable good if they did contribute
>    David> Info pages
>
> Sure.  But we can't require Info pages, especially as rms has
> pronounced against it.  
Ugh!  What's the 'in' thing now?  Didn't the GNU project /invent/ Info?  

> Yes, it's a shame that Swiss cheese has holes, but the
> part that isn't holes is pretty tasty, no?
Tasty, yes!

> But setting INFOPATH=/path/to/xemacs-packages/info:$INFOPATH
> should do the trick (modulo our interpretation of dir as a cache
> rather than something that should be authoritative).
Ah, I had it but had it wrong!   I had noticed that Xemacs/info-mode 
rebuilds the directory when I didn't expect it.

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