No .info file

[meedstrom]

I think you have to include an .info file (not just .texi file) for the Info doc to automatically install. At least, there's no Info doc in my Doom (which uses straight.el).

OK, I looked around. The MELPA recipe format has a default :files setting that includes docs/*.texi, among many others. So the file is included in the download. However, I think you have to add a Makefile instruction to turn it into .info. In my packages, I found it easier to just pre-generate the .info file (via org-export) and commit it to the repo.

[okomestudio]

Just to add in case it helps, as I have the same issue of missing .info file, which needs to be generated manually.

I've beeing adding the following pre-built instruction in my straight.el install procecure with use-package:

:straight
  (;; Info manual isn't generated by default, so do it here:
   :pre-build
   (("make" "org-transclusion.org")
    ("make" "-C" "./docs" "org-transclusion.texi")
    ("makeinfo" "./docs/org-transclusion.texi" "-o" "./docs/org-transclusion.info")
    ("install-info" "./docs/org-transclusion.info" "./docs/dir")))

This way I can make the info doc for org-transclusion available within Emacs, at least with straight.el and use-package.

I haven't created the issue ticket like this myself since I'm yet to understand the mechanics of registering package with Melpa, etc.; I got a clue from this ticket:

#182

I'm not sure if the missing info is caused by my particular environment (straight plus use-package), but I would like to communicate the existence of the issue and the tentative resolution that I am using to illustrate the issue.

[nobiot]

Sorry I do not know how Doom and Straight work at all.

ELPA adds .info file as you can see in the tar archive file (eg here). You can also use it as it's free to download it.

What's the reason why this is not a feature request / bug report for Doom or Straight? As I understand it, Straight is a third-party package, and there are other packages that provide similar functionality such as Elpaca and Quelpa. I do not think it is up to individual packages to support these arbitrarily, when the built-in package.el works.

This is not a hard "no", but because I do not know what to do (I don't use Doom or Straight), I cannot be of much help without guidance from you and other users.

Do you know what other packages that provide .info file do? Maybe that's something I can try to emulate if you can let me know the detail.

[okomestudio]

Sorry I didn't mean to burden you with a responsibility of fixing the issue; my intention was to simply report that I'm having a similar issue with (apparently) a different tool, for which the solution might be the same.

For most other packages that I usually get via MELPA (with or without straight.el), I don't have to generate the Info doc manually, so I just lazily assumed that it could be something with the way the specific repo is structured that's not generating it. (The another package that I have had to do is consult, a very popular package, so you might be correct that the problem lies elsewhere.)

When I have time, I'll see where best to apply a fix on my end, and if it's here then I'll submit a PR. Please feel free to ignore my comment above.

[nobiot]

@okomestudio

No worries. For consult.el, I suggest to get the tar file from either ELPA-devel or ELPA. For some reason, consult.el tar file on MELPA does not contain the .info file, but ELPA repos do.

I use package.el to get the tar file and have no problem with installing Info document.

I can also install Org-transclusion's info file with no issue.

@okomestudio @meedstrom

I really don't know what straight.el does with info documentation -- Do you also have trouble with packages such as embark orderless magit and so on? You see they are all installed properly on my end. I do not think org-transclusion does something very different to these popular packages, so I assume there is a way in straight???

As far as I can see, these packages do not include .info files in the Git repo -- some do .texi but that's what make creates for org-transclusion and, I believe, consult.el on ELPA(-devel).