From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#66050: Making perl-mode.el obsolete Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:31:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87y1gw8kof.fsf@oook.m.uunet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33588"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, 66050@debbugs.gnu.org To: Harald =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg?= , Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 24 09:32:06 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qkJb2-0008U7-EK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:31:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87y1gw8kof.fsf@oook.m.uunet.de> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:271218 Archived-At: Harald J=C3=B6rg writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >> I think the best option is to obsolete `perl-mode` and to encourage >> people to report bugs against `cperl-mode` when they find it doesn't >> work as well as their beloved `perl-mode` :-) > > +1 How about this basic plan: First, we make perl-mode.el obsolete on master. Second, we announce that people should report bugs against cperl-mode where they want it to be more like perl-mode, and that we are looking for interested volunteers to help work on implementing this. Third, we close all bugs against perl-mode as wontfix, and recommend the reporter to see if it is fixed by using cperl-mode instead. Fourth, if we don't have enough tangible progress in cperl-mode, we can unobsolete perl-mode.el on the Emacs 30 release branch, right after it is cut, while keeping it in obsolete/ on master. That would give us additional time to make sure cperl-mode.el is up to scratch. My idea here is to motivate people to work on cperl-mode, avoid unnecessary bikeshedding, and to take a firm stance on the direction we want to take as a project here. Does anyone object to or see any problems with the above?