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Re: authors excludes the lisp manual.


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: authors excludes the lisp manual.
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 18:11:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     Does anybody know why authors in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el doesn't
>>     parse ChangeLogs in lispref/?  I'd like to change that.
>>
>> Perhaps it has not been updated since we put lispref/ into the Emacs
>> distribution.
>
> It explicitly excludes lispref/:
>
> ,----
> |     (dolist (log logs)
> |       (when (and (string-match "ChangeLog\\(.[0-9]+\\)?$" log)
> |              (not (string-match "/lispref/" log)))
> |     (message "Scanning %s..." log)
> |     (authors-scan-change-log log table)))
> `----
>
> I guess that lispref/ was put in Emacs' CVS before the 21.1 release so
> that authors needed to exclude it as Emacs 21 wasn't distributed with
> the lisp manual.

Could it have anything to do with the fact that the Lisp manual is not
distributed under the GPL?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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