Re: Adding a line to the splash screen with the guided tour's URL

[chad brown]

I can practically guarantee that that URL will stop working soon, in  
the time scale of Emacs releases.

IAP is MIT's Independant Activities Period, a sort of open-study  
period every January.  People (students, professors, researchers,  
alum, etc) both give and take sessions on all sorts of topics during  
IAP, changing from year to year.   Thus, that particular session  
might be taught only one year, or maybe a few years, but its unlikely  
(not impossible) to last as long as, say, the last emacs release.

As I understand it, we already got permission to use the guide for  
emacs if we wanted to host it somewhere else.  If that's not the  
case, I could ask the author about giving us such rights.

*chad

On Apr 13, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > > Would it be practical to at least add a line of plain text to the
> > > splash screen: "The illustrated guided tour is at
> > > http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/emacs/";?  I can send a patch to implement
> > > this if you like.
>
> > Please, no.  Emacs 22 might be in use for years; there's no guarantee
> > that URL will be up for an equivalent period of time.