Structure of package /man

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

    David> the `man' directory in packages contains .texi files as far
    David> as I can see.

Yes.  The naming is presumably after the XEmacs source tree, which
puts the texi files in man (and the man pages in etc!)

    David> Is there any automatic procedure or standard for generating
    David> anything from them?

No.  They're just there because it's legally required in most cases to
provide sources.

    David> Is there any standard way for telling people about such
    David> things in case that they want to regenerate info files?

No.  All of that is in XEmacs.rules.

    David> Is it sufficient to mention such details just in the top of
    David> the files themselves as comments?

That's the best way to communicate them to people who do not use
XEmacs.rules to generate their binary installation.


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