Re: none

[Yoni Rabkin]

We have Emms in ELPA now. This means that the manner in which we install
Emms isn't going to change. We also have new info methods in
emms-info-exiftool and emms-info-tinytag which rely on easily
installable/apt-get-able software.

Will you please consider working on the Emms manual to help reflect
these changes?

I would suggest the Quickstart section, which aims to be the tl;dr of
the manual. The manual is also available online and the Quickstart
section is linked-to directly from the Emms Website
(https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/#get_started).


Peter Prevos <pprevos@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Yoni,
>
> Thanks for the response. Exciting development!
>
> I have added a postscript to the article about future versions.
>
> Once you have the new version, I would love to help you with the manual. I
> am a much better writer than a developer.
>
> P:)
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 11:39, Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> wrote:
>
>> Peter Prevos <pprevos@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Thanks for developing this software.
>> >
>> > While the manual is extensive, I struggled to get EMMS installed the way
>> I
>> > want as the documentation assumes some prior knowledge.
>> >
>> > I wrote an article about configuring EMMS to help others:
>> > https://lucidmanager.org/productivity/configure-emms/
>>
>> Thank you for writing this, I believe it will be of help.
>>
>> > Would it be possible to bundle emms-print-metadata with the binary
>> > version of Emacs?
>>
>> The relationship between Emms and Emacs has recently changed in that
>> Emms used to be an independent GNU project, but now Emms is available
>> (version 5.42) via GNU ELPA. The most common way of installing Emms will
>> now become via the built-in package manager of Emacs.
>>
>> We are also transitioning away from the "shim" binary of
>> emms-print-metadata by providing metadata via tinytag (already
>> implemented) and soon exiftool. The advantage of these is that they are
>> both installable via the package managers that are already available on
>> people's systems. To wit, no more compilation and installation of a
>> separate binary.
>>
>> Since Emms has been only recently added to ELPA, I haven't had the
>> manual reflect this just yet. I want to make sure the way we distribute
>> Emms via ELPA stabilizes before I document it.
>>
>> Last, but not least, if you send in patches to the Emms documentation I
>> will be glad to work that into the manual. Of course it would also be
>> great if you updated your article to reflect the existing and upcoming
>> changes to Emms' distribution, since ELPA makes it even simpler in most
>> cases.
>>
>> --
>>    "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
>>

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