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Re: INFO on add-ons
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: INFO on add-ons |
Date: |
02 Sep 2002 10:36:21 +0900 |
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> David> to provide an Info source covering their software, and that
> David> any installation process ought to support this by merging
> David> these (INSTALL-INFO) with the Emacs Info.Dir?
>
> That's a maintenance nightmare
How so? It seem to work well enough if people consistently use
`install-info' (and that actually seems to happen on debian at least).
> and often impossible on real OSes where not everyone is root.
People certainly have write access to the `dir' file in any directory
they write info files to. Since info merges all the different `dir'
files into the final buffer at run-time, that's all that's needed.
> What's wrong with the current (XEmacs only?) system which
> automatically generates Dir from the info-path?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean; as I mentioned above, emacs merges
all the various `dir' files.
-Miles
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- Re: INFO on add-ons, (continued)
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Alex Schroeder, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Pavel JanÃk, 2002/09/07
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/04
Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/01
- Re: INFO on add-ons,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/02
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Miles Bader, 2002/09/02
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/02
- Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/02
- "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/03
- Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], David A. Cobb, 2002/09/03
- Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/09/03
- Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/03
- Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons], Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/09/04
Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/03