Re: Accessible "building from source" instructions

[Paul Eggert]

> CVS has an Info manual, quite a good one.

Yes, and since I had forgotten most of CVS, I went to that manual yesterday when 
I updated the GNU Emacs web pages. The manual wasn't useful for me. I guess it's 
designed for someone who either (a) doesn't know version control and needs a 
tutorial on the topic, or (b) already knows CVS reasonably well but needs to 
know more. I fall into neither category, and I daresay most developers nowadays 
are in the same camp as me.

Yesterday I solved my problem in the usual way: I used a search engine and found 
a cheat sheet somewhere. From my point of view the CVS manual is an interesting 
historical artifact, but not helpful now. And I write this as a former 
contributor to and partisan of CVS.

It's a bit of an embarrassment to the GNU project that savannah.gnu.org still 
requires the use of CVS. It's long been past time to move on.