Re: Adding Flycheck to NonGNU ELPA

[Philip Kaludercic]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> On 21/02/2024 17:02, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> So, unless unless there is a strong objection from one of Emacs's head
>>> maintainers, I think I will commence Flycheck's addition to NonGNU in the
>>> next few days.
>> That would be very welcome, thanks.
>
> All right, I've made the push:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/nongnu.git/commit/

Here is a more permanent link for posterity:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/nongnu.git/commit/?id=7c06709972291413f18b750248b141293415cd42

>
> It should build sometime within 24 hours.
>
> Bozhidar, see the recipe in the diff, if any exclusions should be
> added, the syntax is there (and also in the file's commentary at the
> top).

Ideally this information shouldn't be tracked in nongnu.git, but in an
.elpaignore file within the repository.

> What could be also added, is a way to build the manual to be included
> with the package. I'm not sure how easy that would be to do, though,
> with your current documentation setup.

It appears they use sphinx, which can generate TeXinfo output[0], though
I personally would recommend looking into translating the documentation
into a more standard format like Org or directly to TeXinfo.

[0] 
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#options-for-texinfo-output