Hi Karl, hi all,
lots of mails here, but I still don't see why you are opposing
the idea to have different versions of the same program installed,
and wanting to be able to *check* all of them.
On Mon, 03 Aug 2015, Karl Berry wrote:
> If you're globally changing the meaning of the "emacs" binary,
On 3 August 2015 at 22:55, Karl Berry wrote:
> Perhaps it's naive, but I feel like I might just want a dir like this so
> that I can find what I want and don't have to change global state and/or
> restart the viewer just to read different versions:
>
> I agree. You can have that now.
Perhaps it's naive, but I feel like I might just want a dir like this so
that I can find what I want and don't have to change global state and/or
restart the viewer just to read different versions:
I agree. You can have that now. It does not need new features, so far
as I can see. J
> I'm wondering if we can kill two birds with one stone here and get
> install-info to actually install the Info file as part of the
> solution.
I really really really advise against going down that road. -k
That doesn't happen, and nobody seems to miss it. If the shell can
avoid a lot of complexity handling multiple versions of programs, I
suspect it may not be necessary for documentation either.
Indeed. Which is why I don't understand why we're having this whole
thread. Sorry. It seem
On 3 August 2015 at 16:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> I don't see how this would solve the issue at hand. Installation of a
> manual is a system-wide action, whereas Rob wanted a way for a _user_
> to specify her preferred version(s) of the manual(s) to use at any
> given moment.
How the user acce
> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 15:16:27 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith
> Cc: 793...@bugs.debian.org, Texinfo
>
> On 3 August 2015 at 14:22, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I'm wondering if we can kill two birds with one stone here and get
> > install-info to actually install the Info file as part of the
> > solutio
> From: Rob Browning
> Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:35:29 -0500
>
> Karl Berry writes:
>
> > Here's what I don't get: suppose there are two versions of Emacs
> > installed, emacs-x and emacs-y. Presumably Debian (and anyone else) has
> > some method for the user to choose which one is invoked by
On 3 August 2015 at 14:22, Gavin Smith wrote:
> I'm wondering if we can kill two birds with one stone here and get
> install-info to actually install the Info file as part of the
> solution.
So here's an idea. Add a --suffix option to install-info and at the
same time allow using a directory in t
On 3 August 2015 at 01:40, Rob Browning wrote:
> - There's an easy way to ask specifically for the "foo X" pages. I
> suppose X might be program specific, but all of the values I can
> think of right now are of the form N or N.M. (i.e. GCC 5.0, Python
> 2.7, Python 3.4, Emacs 24.4 (
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