Re: Drop tarball releases and go ELPA only

[Arash Esbati]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Aren't INSTALL, TODO, FAQ, and CHANGES just the text versions of the
> corresponding texi/info files that are included in the manual anyway?

Yes, this is my understanding.

> I wonder why someone would look at them when the fine manual is
> already there.

I agree for TODO and FAQ, but I look usually for INSTALL and CHANGES as
text files when I unpack something; maybe it is just a habit.

> Or we convert NEWS.org into some NEWS.texi file using some incantation
> of "emacs -Q --batch -f org-texinfo-export-to-texinfo-batch ..."

I had to do:

emacs -Q --batch --eval "(require 'ox-texinfo)" \
  -f org-texinfo-export-to-texinfo-batch NEWS.org NEWS.texi

> and include that in place of changes.texi.  (It would be even better
> when we somehow add the entries from changes.texi in NEWS.org before
> so that the history is complete...)

The output is attached.  I'm not sure if we can include the result in
auctex.texi without further massaging.

Best, Arash

NEWS.texi.gz
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