Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/09/12:17:21
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robinow, David [mailto:drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:42 AM
> To: Harig, Mark A.; Joe Buehler; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: Patch for Cygwin's Emacs dired.el and loaddefs.el
>
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> Not sure if I qualify as "someone" wrt this issue, but I have an
> objection.
> cygwin is for ports of unix tools. I can't see where you have ported
> anything.
> Why increase the size of the distribution for no possible benefit?
>
> > Here are the packages I plan on adding:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/manual/elisp-manual-21-2.8/info/elisp-info.tar.gz
> >
> >
http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-lisp-intro/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info.gz
> Right, that's where they are, there and at numerous mirrors.
> Why add them to cygwin?
>
> >Of course, those two packages completely independent of the Emacs
package.
>
> >BTW, in some future version of Emacs, the Lisp Intro is planned
> >to be integrated into the Emacs distribution.
Two reasons:
1. Convenience. Many people don't know where to find these documents,
but
can quickly navigate through 'setup' to find them. In fact, many
people don't even know that they exist. My guess is that this is
part of the reason why the Emacs Lisp Intro is being added to the
Emacs CVS repository.
Keep in mind that many (most?) packages included in the Cygwin
distribution "compile out of the box", and so an argument could
be made that it's not necessary to include any of those packages
in 'setup'. After all, any one who wants them could simply
download them from one of the many mirrors and build/install
them on their own, decreasing the size of the Cygwin mirrors.
Similarly, most GNU/Linux packages could be obtained directly
from the sources. Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrake, et al., exist
because people find it useful to have a large set of those
packages built for them, and more, installed and set up for them.
2. Because it is basic documentation. There exist large libraries
of Elisp code on many sites (the one at Ohio State comes to mind).
Should Cygwin include these libraries on their mirrors? (Where
do you draw the line? Cygwin includes Perl. Shouldn't it then
include all of CPAN?) Documentation for Emacs Lisp is distinct
from those libraries because of its generality. It is not a
particular package. It is the instructions for creating any
package. That is why I think that it should be included, but the
many libraries of Elisp code should not.
If you think it should not, then wouldn't that argue that the
documentation for Perl and Python should be excluded also?
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