-This package contains a beta version of Gnus. The lisp directory
+This package contains a alpha version of Gnus. The lisp directory
contains the source lisp files, and the texi directory contains a
draft of the Gnus info pages.
To enable reading the Gnus manual, you could say something like:
+ (require 'info)
(setq Info-default-directory-list
(cons "~/gnus-5.6.53/texi" Info-default-directory-list))
+or
+
+ (require 'info)
+ (setq Info-directory-list
+ (cons "~/gnus-5.6.53/texi" Info-directory-list))
+
+depending on which version of Emacs or XEmacs you're using.
+
Note that Gnus and GNUS can't coexist in a single Emacs. They both use
the same function and variable names. If you have been running GNUS
in your Emacs, you should probably exit that Emacs and start a new one
to fire up Gnus.
Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 20.3 or
-XEmacs 20.0. So you definitely need a new Emacs.
+XEmacs 20.0. So you definitely need a new Emacs.
+
+To compile the Gnus manual, you either need a pretty new Emacs, or a
+pretty new version of the texinfo tools.
Then you do a `M-x gnus', and everything should... uhm... it should
work, but it might not. Set `debug-on-error' to t, and mail me the