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Re: authors excludes the lisp manual.
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: authors excludes the lisp manual. |
Date: |
Thu, 12 May 2005 18:11:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Does anybody know why authors in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el doesn't
>> parse ChangeLogs in lispref/? I'd like to change that.
>>
>> Perhaps it has not been updated since we put lispref/ into the Emacs
>> distribution.
>
> It explicitly excludes lispref/:
>
> ,----
> | (dolist (log logs)
> | (when (and (string-match "ChangeLog\\(.[0-9]+\\)?$" log)
> | (not (string-match "/lispref/" log)))
> | (message "Scanning %s..." log)
> | (authors-scan-change-log log table)))
> `----
>
> I guess that lispref/ was put in Emacs' CVS before the 21.1 release so
> that authors needed to exclude it as Emacs 21 wasn't distributed with
> the lisp manual.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that the Lisp manual is not
distributed under the GPL?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum