Re: bug#20968: 25.0.50; Be able to specify the output directory for `byte-compile-file'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>         address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 12:27:48 -0400
> 
> > That's not the use case I was talking about.  Looking up questions
> > already asked means using a search engine, which will find the answers
> > wherever they are, be it on gnu.emacs.help of stack-overflow.
> 
> No, the curating (tagging, voting, and editing) makes a significant
> difference: you don't need to read N different messages (hopefully
> connected via threading) to get the overall picture.

The answers on Stack-overflow present discussion as well.  And at
least I always read everything there, not just the "best" answer.

> When I search (via, say, DuckDuckGo) for answers to a particular
> problem, I generally find that the answers I find in stackoverflow are
> generally more directly usable and of higher quality than what I may
> find elsewhere.

Then we may wish to make our answers better and more usable as well.
Again, if we want to; it doesn't sound to me people are too
enthusiastic about this.