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Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:18:37 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:12:01 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:21:18 -0600
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> Now, overrides.texi is for Gnus manuals overrides: settings we may want
>> to propagate to all our manuals. So I think it makes sense to have it,
>> just not the way I did it with shell redirection. I renamed it to
>> gnus-overrides.texi and it can be used for things we want to use in all
>> the Gnus manuals in the future. I hope that's OK with everyone; if not
>> it's easy enough to pull that include out.
EZ> I don't necessarily see a problem, but I don't understand why you need
EZ> a .texi file for these overrides. At least the "@set FOO" part of
EZ> those overrides can be easily handled by add -DFOO switch to
EZ> MAKEINFO_OPTS.
It's for general text variables which are awkward in Makefiles,
especially if we need many. I can see many uses in the Gnus manuals.
EZ> More generally, what is a user supposed to do if she does want to put
EZ> something on gnus-overrides.texi? That's a versioned file, so "bzr
EZ> status" will show it as modified, and there's still a danger of having
EZ> it committed inadvertently. How is this better than just modifying
EZ> gnu.texi or any other file directly?
The user wouldn't touch them, they are for the developers. I guess
"gnus-includes.texi" would be a less confusing name?
Ted
- Re: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk., (continued)
- Re: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk., Peter Münster, 2011/02/08
- Re: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk., Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/08
- Re: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk., Andreas Schwab, 2011/02/08
- Re: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk., Peter Münster, 2011/02/08
- Re: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk., Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/08
- -DWEBHACKDEVEL for Gnus (was: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk.), Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/08
- Re: -DWEBHACKDEVEL for Gnus, Peter Münster, 2011/02/08
- Re: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk., Andreas Schwab, 2011/02/05
- Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL (was: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk.), Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/05
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/05
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/05
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/05
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/07
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/07
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/02/06
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/06
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/02/06
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/06
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/02/06
- Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/06