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Re: Contributing to Emacs


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:48:11 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>     Óscar> You are supposed to use the instructions on INSTALL for building an
>     Óscar> Emacs checkout too. Among those instructions, at the beginning, it 
> is
>     Óscar> said that you must start with the steps written in INSTALL.REPO in 
> case
>     Óscar> you are building a checkout.
>
>     Óscar> It looks fine to me.
>
> Itʼs easy to miss the referral to INSTALL.REPO at the start of
> INSTALL. Would it do any harm to refer to it from README as well?

I don't think that it is easier to miss the INSTALL.REPO mention than
any other part of INSTALL, so mentioning it on README seems like
unnecessarily complicating things, moreover when you are supposed to go
to INSTALL.REPO from INSTALL, not from README.




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