Re: [PATCH] xemacs-21.5: make man/xemacs-faq.texi ready to replace http://www.xemacs.org/FAQ content
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner
<adrian(a)xemacs.org> writes:
APA> Should we continue to offer .txt and .dvi versions of the
APA> FAQ?
No. They just encourage people to refer to out-of-date material.
Well, they would serve people who want to read the FAQ offline, in
notepad, or on paper perhaps.
Anyway, they don't seem to have a strong lobby here.
People who need them for some reason can make them easily enough.
I have serious doubts about that one. People feeling the need for the
FAQ in .txt or .dvi form will probably not be the same people knowing
how to produce them.
Making the XEmacs editor easily installable with up-to-date docs (FAQ
being an important one) is probably the best service we can provide to
the world.
In fact, I don't really see why we should offer HTML packaged for
download, for that matter, only on-line. (Maybe as part of the
general-docs package when it gets moved there.)
I am leaning towards the radical approach of making the FAQ in the
http://www.xemacs.org/ sidebar link to the current beta FAQ, split by
chapter only, assuming it will have updated information about the
currently stable and beta XEmacs.
I would then put in a few relative symlinks on the master websites
(created by make init) to that new FAQ for backward compatibility with
released XEmacs versions advertizing
http://www.xemacs.org/FAQ/xemacs-faq.html, and explain this change in
the http://www.xemacs.org/FAQ/index.html page.
How about that?
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Adrian Aichner
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