We have Emms in ELPA now. This means that the manner in which we install Emms isn't going to change. We also have new info methods in emms-info-exiftool and emms-info-tinytag which rely on easily installable/apt-get-able software.
Will you please consider working on the Emms manual to help reflect these changes? I would suggest the Quickstart section, which aims to be the tl;dr of the manual. The manual is also available online and the Quickstart section is linked-to directly from the Emms Website (https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/#get_started). Peter Prevos <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Yoni, > > Thanks for the response. Exciting development! > > I have added a postscript to the article about future versions. > > Once you have the new version, I would love to help you with the manual. I > am a much better writer than a developer. > > P:) > > > > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 11:39, Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Peter Prevos <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > Thanks for developing this software. >> > >> > While the manual is extensive, I struggled to get EMMS installed the way >> I >> > want as the documentation assumes some prior knowledge. >> > >> > I wrote an article about configuring EMMS to help others: >> > https://lucidmanager.org/productivity/configure-emms/ >> >> Thank you for writing this, I believe it will be of help. >> >> > Would it be possible to bundle emms-print-metadata with the binary >> > version of Emacs? >> >> The relationship between Emms and Emacs has recently changed in that >> Emms used to be an independent GNU project, but now Emms is available >> (version 5.42) via GNU ELPA. The most common way of installing Emms will >> now become via the built-in package manager of Emacs. >> >> We are also transitioning away from the "shim" binary of >> emms-print-metadata by providing metadata via tinytag (already >> implemented) and soon exiftool. The advantage of these is that they are >> both installable via the package managers that are already available on >> people's systems. To wit, no more compilation and installation of a >> separate binary. >> >> Since Emms has been only recently added to ELPA, I haven't had the >> manual reflect this just yet. I want to make sure the way we distribute >> Emms via ELPA stabilizes before I document it. >> >> Last, but not least, if you send in patches to the Emms documentation I >> will be glad to work that into the manual. Of course it would also be >> great if you updated your article to reflect the existing and upcoming >> changes to Emms' distribution, since ELPA makes it even simpler in most >> cases. >> >> -- >> "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" >> -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
