Thanks for clarifying! This makes a lot of sense. Cheers, Clément. On 2016-12-12 15:38, Simen Heggestøyl wrote: > Hi Clément. > > More than a year ago I contacted the author of the original JSON mode, > Josh Johnston, to see if we could get JSON mode included in Emacs. At > the same time it seemed like a good idea to remove its basis on JS mode, > since various issues come from it [1, 2]. We would also need to either > get its two MELPA dependencies into GNU ELPA or replace them. > > I had already written a JSON mode that I had been using privately for a > while that didn't depend on JS mode, and that didn't depend on any MELPA > packages (it uses json.el bundled with Emacs for the same > functionality). I suggested we merge our two modes before moving it into > Emacs or GNU ELPA. Josh then pointed out that everything from the old > mode was already implemented in the new one. So while the new JSON > mode's code isn't directly based on the old JSON mode's, it carries on > its name, its functionality, and the same default keybindings. > > Lastly we agreed to try and make the transition to the new mode as > smooth as possible for the users. I've released the new mode with a > lower version number than Josh's, so Josh's mode will still be installed > for those who have configured MELPA. By doing so I was hoping to get > more testing, and finding out whether the new approach is really > better. If it turns out that it's not, we'll just retract it. If it > turns out that it is, we'll increase the version number higher than the > old mode (for instance 2.0). > > -- Simen > > [1] https://github.com/joshwnj/json-mode/issues/32 > [2] https://github.com/joshwnj/json-mode/issues/34 > >