From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] support a few of the new features of C++11 in syntax highlighting Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 08:42:13 +0000 Message-ID: <20140517084212.GB3398@acm.acm> References: <536F1D36.6010307@gmail.com> <87ppjks3th.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhu8rrtm.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20140511220947.GD2759@acm.acm> <87ha4wrle6.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20140514201353.GA4125@acm.acm> <20140516160743.GA3267@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400316412 17052 80.91.229.3 (17 May 2014 08:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 08:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , g@acm.muc.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 17 10:46:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WlaGS-0006xg-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 10:46:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlaGS-0001QV-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 04:46:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlaGI-0001LI-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 04:46:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlaGB-0003YE-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 04:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:19824 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlaGB-0003WV-3B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 04:46:27 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 83010 invoked by uid 3782); 17 May 2014 08:46:24 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951B643.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.182.67]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 17 May 2014 10:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3466 invoked by uid 1000); 17 May 2014 08:42:13 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171905 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:42:19PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> >> What can I do about that? > >> > OK. I suggest proceeding as follows. > >> I'm curious: how did we get to this point? > > We've never been anywhere else. CC Mode developement has always taken > > place mainly in its own project at SourceForge. > Right, this is not the part that bothers me. > > Anyhow, stand alone CC Mode and that in Emacs have drifted apart to > > the extent that any such synching would usually need manual effort (as > > Óscar will likely find out). > That's the first part that worries me. Why? > The second is that this new C++11 branch seems to be based on the > standalone branch rather than the Emacs branch. Yes. But these changes for C++11 are at the "engine" level, which is pretty much the same. There are lots of typographical differences though (like reformatted comments, spelling corrections, minor stylistic changes) which throw off the patching. > Am I reading too much into it or do you consider the standalone branch > as "the main branch"? I consider the standalone branch as the main one, yes. That's the way the project's been since longer than I've been involved with it. > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).