Re: [elpa] chess.el: Req. for comment/review: Info manual

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:36:50 -0400
> 
> > Thank you, but having a way to checkout _all_ of the external packages
> > without a way to do that only for one or a few is a limitation.
> > Besides, you assume that someone can run "make" in the same session
> > where she runs git and Emacs, which is entirely non-trivial on
> > Windows.
> 
> I have no access, no experience, no desire of access nor desire of
> experience on Windows.

You never know where life will take you.

> So until someone else invests time on this front, it might suck,
> indeed.

I just did, and wrote that in README.

The point is that having just a Make rule for something like checking
out a subtree is not the best way of exposing the knowledge to users.