Re: Doc: reference to guix-devel for submitting patches

[Chris Marusich]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 07:48:15PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
>> In the current master branch, this has been changed to "guix-patches".
>> Perhaps somebody needs to update the website, too?  The website is
>> only updated periodically, so sometimes it is out of date.
>
> The web-based manual corresponds to the latest release. This ensures
> that new Guix users have the right documentation available on the web.
>
> Yes, it's not ideal for the rest of us...

Indeed.  For this reason, I added the following line to my
~/.bash_profile:

  export INFOPATH="$HOME/guix/doc${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"

where $HOME/guix is my local checkout of Guix's Git repository.  This
ensures that the manual I read using Emacs and the Info reader matches
the Guix code I have checked out (after I've built it, of course).  Do
you think it would be worth it if I added a small section about this to
the "Contributing" section in the manual?  It seems to come up from time
to time on the mailing list.

-- 
Chris

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