I plan to begin working towards this to package GNU Manuals. But, I wish to ask, where should I collect these manuals from? They aren't at a centralized place, I guess? So I should look for them one-by-one through the FSF Directory?
And Guix users/devs, is there a way to figure our whether a GNU Manual is already packaged with its parent package (of which it is a manual) or not? I plan to first port them to my Guix channel [0] and then send patches upstream. [0]: https://codeberg.org/divyaranjan/divya-lambda Regards, On 18 December 2024 01:20:58 GMT, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, > >Cayetano Santos <csant...@inventati.org> writes: > >>>dim. 15 déc. 2024 at 22:34, Jeremy Bryant <j...@jeremybryant.net> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Remember you always have the possibility to create a dedicated guix >> channel, external but complementary to guix upstream itself, to >> distribute manuals. This would about any additional overload on guix >> maintenance tasks. > >Well, the topic being GNU manuals, they'd be more than at home in GNU >Guix. Typically though they come with the packages themselves, such as >'libc.info.gz' which is shipped with glibc. > >I think Guix would be a fine place to have them packaged and made >available. We already have the C manual you mentioned; it's a great >read! You can read it with > >--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >$ guix shell info-reader c-intro-and-ref -- info c' >--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > >More info on this package: > >--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >$ guix show c-intro-and-ref >name: c-intro-and-ref >version: 0.0.0-1.47e5a23 >outputs: >+ out: tout >systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux >dependencies: texinfo@6.8 >location: gnu/packages/c.scm:83:4 >homepage: https://www.gnu.org/ >license: FDL 1.3+ >synopsis: GNU C Language Intro and Reference >description: This manual explains the C language for use with the GNU Compiler >Collection (GCC) on the >+ GNU/Linux system and other systems. We refer to this dialect as GNU C. If >you already know C, you can use >+ this as a reference manual. >--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > >-- >Thanks, >Maxim > Divya Ranjan, Mathematics, Philosophy and Libre Software
