On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, at 4:06 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>>> I just tested the construction of a GNU ELPA package for CC-
>>>>> mode using>>> the :core thingy of elpa.git and everything looks
>>>>> good.>>>> Who's going to be testing this?  I've a slight suspicion that
>>>> sometimes>> people add things to CC Mode that depend on things in
>>>> sometimes>> master.>>>> That would>> be subotimal for ELPA.
>>> This has not proved to be a problem for other packages we handle
>>> this> way>>> (e.g. soap-client, python.el, ...).
>>> One of the reasons is that it's so cheap&quick to release a new
>>> version> that such problems are trivial to solve if/when they show
>>> version> up.>> 
>> cc-mode is not only used inside core Emacs, but also by third party
>> developers.
> [...]
> 
> I'm not suggesting to remove CC-mode from Emacs.  Only to
> **additionally**> distribute it via GNU ELPA.
> 
> 
>         Stefan

I realize that.

I was just pointing out how that can make handling compatibility
harder than it used to be for packages and major-modes which derives
from cc-mode.
It seems though, as my  suggestion to make this less of a problem
(separate versioning for cc-mode accessible through programmatic
means, c-version) is already implemented and in place, and as a third-
party package author, I can transition to verify against that instead
of emacs-version.
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Jostein Kjønigsen

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