Hello, Jeremy, Jeremy Bryant <j...@jeremybryant.net> writes:
> Hi Guix developers, > > The GNU Project's documentation format is Texinfo. > How about distributing some or many Texinfo manuals through Guix, is > this something that is consistent with previous norms in Guix? I believe this is certainly feasible, and desirable. Since Guix itself relies a lot on functioning with info for its documentation requirements. > Following a discussion on emacs-devel, several people suggested that > GNU Guix may be a a good way to contemplate this distribution mechanism, > for obvious GNU-related reasons. > > We discussed both a comprehensive solution for Info manuals, as well as > specific cases such as RMS's C manual (c.info) which is not part of a > software project. As Maxim noted, the particular manual already exists. But we need to think about how exactly to package the Info manuals. Since Guix’s process of packaging is a bit differently organized, we’d have to figure out where exactly should the package definitions for these manuals live in the Guix source tree. I see that the C manual is in gnu/packages/c.scm and SICP in gnu/packages/scheme.scm, so maybe each manual could go into the relevant program/language’s guile module. Or, should we have a module just for the Info manuals? I see gnu/packages/texinfo.scm and it has mostly a few packages related to TeXinfo readers, could we put them there, or only the miscellaneous ones? Those more knowledgeable about Guix’s source-tree management should shed light on this. Regards, -- Divya Ranjan, Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.
