Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The issues the others mentioned mainly the lack of acceptance of the
  > format

"Lack of acceptance" is a broad term.  It can manifest in various
ways, and for this purpose, it matters which way.

           and for sometime the possibility to find info manual manly due
  > the first problem.

What does "the first problem" refer to?  It sounds like a reference to
something before this paragraph, but thee was no text from you before
that.

  > Some projects switched to documentation systems which don't provide
  > anything but HTML or PDF such as e.g. Doxygen or those where the info
  > output is available but fragile and usually not enabled due problem one.

This will have reduced the range of manuals available in Info format
and thus harmed the success of Info format.  But I don't see how it relates
to the difficulty getting the basic Info support ncluded in the distro.

  > In the instance of the this specific manual it's just that it's one
  > specific document which isn't distributed along other software which is
  > unusual but also that it doesn't get much exposure I think.

Should we recruit people to package it for various kinds of distros?

  > The last issue is that the license make it impossible to be distributed
  > for some namely those which are Debian based but not solely those.

We could pubish a .deb made from the manual, for distros less rigid
than Debian to include.  Should we do that?

  > Related: I package the manual for RPM based distribution below:
  > 
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Thaodan:Documentation/c-intro-and-ref

Would you like to distribute that package via gnu.org?
I'd rather point to it there than on opensuse.org.



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