Re: [ELPA] New package c-intro-and-ref -- was Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  philipk@posteo.net,  Stefan Monnier
>  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:58:44 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Are we providing packages that include only Info manuals, which
> > document stuff that is not specific to Emacs?  Because I don't see how
> > it would be a good idea to have this as an ELPA package.
> 
> I hear that maybe it's not a good idea, as this is not Emacs specific.
> 
> >From a complementary point of view, reading this list it appears that
> there is a smaller number of C contributors to Emacs, compared to Lisp,
> and more C contributors are needed to work on Emacs.
> 
> Can we facilitate C documentation?
> For example.  The info-look.el subsystem already adds lookup facility for 
> manuals such
> as (libc).  Wouldn't it be useful to also have c.info similarly
> available and to aid in Emacs C development?  That is
> part of the motivation.

It's okay to extend info-look.el to use this manual (and perhaps also
the sibling GNU C manual?), but please note that we do NOT provide the
glibc Info manual on ELPA, although it is referenced by info-look.el
(and I personally have that manual installed on my system, even though
my main development machine doesn't use glibc).

> The c.texi file starts with a mention of GNU C
> 
> @direntry
> * C: (c).       GNU C Language Intro and Reference Manual
> @end direntry

Yes.