[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Release schedule.

[Richard Lewis]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> <URL:http://www.iwi.uni-sb.de/angeli/misc/auctex/web/download.html>.

> Quite an improvement.  Some notes: maybe the order needs to get
> amended, first the requirements, then the download section.  Maybe it
> would also be an idea to have some selector
>
>     MS Windows
>     MacOSX
>     Fedora Linux
>     SuSE Linux
>     Debian Linux
>     FreeBSD
>     Other operating systems with X11
>     Other operating systems
>
> All of those lead to different recommendations (all of those have some
> specific precompiled packages, some done by us, some by others), and
> having them all on one page might be a bit distracting.

Maybe there could be a pseudo-interactive page:
First page says "which operating system do you want to install on?"
and gives a list of links as above (you might also want ubuntu,
mandriva and "other linux"), then you get a page where you can refine
that choice (eg for Debian you'd get options for woody, sarge,
testing, unstable, experimental etc),

That link will take you to a list of emacs versions that the selected
operating system includes, plus options for "emacs21 installed by
hand" and "emacs cvs installed by hand" [and similarly for xemacs].
you could also have a "AUCTeX recommends you use: ..." option for
people who dont already have emacs installed

Then you need to choose which auctex version you want ("download
auctex 11.99 from sourceforge", "use existing Debian auctex-11.86-4
package", "get CVS vesion of auctex"),

then you get to a page of detailed instructions for a specific
auctex/emacs/operating system combination.