On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Of course. But I'd suggest putting it into ELPA, if only because then 
> Emacs 24 users would also be able to enjoy it.

I think it would be more practical to ship it together with json.el
(which is currently bundled with Emacs), because json-mode.el is
tightly coupled with it.

For instance, the prettification commands that json-mode.el borrows
from json.el don't work well in Emacs >25, because of bugs #16373,
#17133, and #21488.

> There is the issue of another mode with the same name, though: 
> https://github.com/joshwnj/json-mode
> 
> It's also relatively simple, and it's distributed via MELPA. I've 
> used it for .json files for a while.
> 
> Maybe you could contact the author, and agree on a merge of some 
> kind? I guess what's important is that Josh doesn't feel left out, 
> and that the one resulting mode doesn't lose on features.
> 
> If Josh doesn't have copyright assignment signed, you might have to 
> re-implement a command or two yourself.

Good thinking, Dmitry, Josh should definitely be included in the
process. I've contacted him to hear what he thinks.

-- Simen