Re: PL support

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Some contributors are eagerly planning a sort of automatic facility to
  > > "install external tools."  I'm disappointed to have to say that this
  > > raises problems at various levels.  I doubt there is an acceptable way
  > > to do it.

  > There is no doubt that acceptable ways to do it exist.

My doubts remain.

  > As a matter of fact, we *already* do that, typically in the form of
  > instructions in `Commentary:`, `INSTALL`, manuals, messages in
  > mailing-lists, etc...

Those are suggestions, not automatic, but they may indeed raise problems.
I hope we have checked all the suggestions in the Emacs distribution.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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