Re: Drop tarball releases and go ELPA only

[Tassilo Horn]

Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:

Hi chaps,

>> Now the make rules for some files, including INSTALL, TODO, FAQ and
>> CHANGES, are gone. Should we revise the documentations which mention
>> these files, or restore the rules in GNUmakefile?
>
> Thanks for catching this.  My recommendation is the latter: Restore
> the rules in the GNUmakefile.  We have to revise the manual anyways,
> we can do that all in one go.

Aren't INSTALL, TODO, FAQ, and CHANGES just the text versions of the
corresponding texi/info files that are included in the manual anyway?  I
wonder why someone would look at them when the fine manual is already
there.

>> ,----[ doc/intro.texi ]
>> | If you are considering upgrading @AUCTeX{}, the recent changes are
>> | described in
>> | @ifset rawfile
>> | the @file{CHANGES} file.
>> | @end ifset
>> | @ifclear rawfile
>> | @ref{Changes}.
>> | @end ifclear
>> `----
>
> This will probably turn into "Read NEWS.org".

Or we convert NEWS.org into some NEWS.texi file using some incantation
of "emacs -Q --batch -f org-texinfo-export-to-texinfo-batch ..." and
include that in place of changes.texi.  (It would be even better when we
somehow add the entries from changes.texi in NEWS.org before so that the
history is complete...)

Bye,
  Tassilo