Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release

[Arsen Arsenović]

Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net> writes:

> Dear RMS and other maintainers,

I'm neither, but I hope my feedback is appreciated anyway :-)

> The C manual at 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/c-intro-and-ref/
>
> 1.
> could be a useful guide to include within the Emacs tree under doc/

I don't see how.

> 2.
> It could possibly be part of the release tarball given the usefulness of
> Emacs for C programmers?

Generally, bundling stuff makes it hard to distribute independently.
For instance, many distributions do not install info.info with standalne
'info' as it is part of Emacs, which IMO has damaged the reputation of
the Texinfo documentation system, as anyone who does not have emacs
installed, or, worse, emacses non-DFSG documentation package could not
access the tutorial or manual.

> 3.
> Or ELPA?

I don't see the point to that personally, but at least it won't create
the trouble bundling (like info.info) creates.

Have a lovely day.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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