Re: Move verilog-mode and vhdl-mode to elpa.gnu.org

[wsnyder@wsnyder.org (Wilson Snyder)]

Thanks for your suggestion to put verilog-mode into ELPA (I
can't speak for vhdl-mode).

I'll look into ELPA, it's certainly been many years since I
last considered it and it has improved massively.

BTW the only intentional difference between verilog-mode on
the veripool.org website and that in GNU Emacs is the
version number.  Any other differences are squashed with
occasional merges; I merge Emacs trunk changes generally
within a few days, and for merges into trunk your work is
much appreciated.

However it's not clear to me how ELPA helps development this
as there would still two repos...

How does moving to ELPA simplify the process of merging the
package into Emacs trunk, is it scriped or something?
Likewise how do those edits made to the package in Emacs
trunk get back into the ELPA version?  Feel free to just
point me to some FAQ about this if there is one.

Thanks


Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

...
>I think a much better solution for everybody would be to move both these
>packages to elpa.gnu.org. If you are not familiar with this, it is a
>gnu.org package repository for Emacs lisp files. Other people on this
>list know much more about it than I do, and can hopefully ask any
>questions you might have.
...