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Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages |
Date: |
Mon, 26 May 2014 13:54:39 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
The situation w.r.t to documentation of ELPA packages indeed could be
improved at various stages:
- Many packages don't have much documentation. That's also true of many
Elisp packages bundled with Emacs, but it's probably more true of
ELPA packages. We could encourage people to provide docs, but that
problem seems different from the one you raise.
- Some have documentation but it's not made easily accessible to
the user. This is because the GNU ELPA infrastructure is fairly
limited in this respect:
- package.el only knows how to use an Info doc and only if the package
comes with a "dir" file.
- the GNU ELPA scripts don't know how to build Info files nor "dir" files.
So improving the GNU ELPA scripts to generate the Info and "dir" files
would probably be a good first step. If you have specific packages
which included docs in the Git repo but no Info&dir files, please send
them along, they'll be helpful to try and figure out how those scripts
could/should work.
Stefan
- Info Pages for ELPA packages, T. V. Raman, 2014/05/24
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Glenn Morris, 2014/05/24
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Mario Lang, 2014/05/25
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, raman, 2014/05/26
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, T.V Raman, 2014/05/26
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Eric Abrahamsen, 2014/05/26
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, raman, 2014/05/26
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Stefan Monnier, 2014/05/26
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, T.V Raman, 2014/05/27
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/05/27
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Stefan Monnier, 2014/05/27
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Stefan Monnier, 2014/05/26
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Eric Abrahamsen, 2014/05/27
- Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages, Mario Lang, 2014/05/27