Evening Gavin, Gavin Smith <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 02:28:16PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote: >> Also, I didn't realize this before it was mentioned here, but yes, >> ``(info)Help'' indeed comes with EMACS. Perhaps we should include a >> copy in the Texinfo distribution too, or encourage downstreams to >> extract info.info out of EMACS, so that those installing info but not >> EMACS (which is rather common) have immediate access to the tutorial. >> Eli, Gavin, what do you think about that? > > (Hopefully my last mail this evening.) > > info.texi used to be distributed with Texinfo but was maintained > as part of Emacs. There were complaints that having the same file > distributed with both Emacs and Texinfo was inconvenient: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2015-10/msg00062.html > > I'm happy that info.texi is not distributed with Texinfo, anyway, as > it is a file that we cannot control and yet would appear responsible > for if it came with Texinfo. It makes sense for info-stnd.texi to > be maintained as part of the Texinfo project because the standalone > Info browser is also maintained as part of the same project, but the > same argument does not apply to info.texi. Discussing changes to > info.texi on a different project's mailing list could be an unedifying > experience, which is natural and unavoidable even with the best wills > in the world. Ah, I see. The historic context makes sense now. Do you think distributions should make it available without Emacs? If so, I can do some outreachy (in a few weeks) and we could print a message at install time or so about it, so that it does not become "cult knowledge". (apologies for my lack of familiarity with the history) Thanks in advance, have a lovely night. -- Arsen Arsenović
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