Re: Packaging css-mode for GNU ELPA

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Simen Heggestøyl <simenheg@gmail.com> writes:

> I think it would be very convenient to be able to subscribe to an ELPA
> version of css-mode, which could be updated more frequently than Emacs
> releases. Is there a procedure for turning a built-in mode into an
> ELPA package, and at the same time keeping the built-in package? It
> looks like for instance ada-mode is in a similar situation.

For ada-mode, I just started the Gnu ELPA package, and told the ada-mode
mailing list about it. The internal ada-mode is no longer maintained
(except as required due to changes elsewhere in Emacs).

There is a vague plan that it should be possible to include a Gnu ELPA
package as part of the distribution, so that there would not need to be
a copy of the package in Emacs git.

However, no one has volunteered to implement that.

I plan to declare the internal ada-mode obsolete and eventually delete
it, after I get some speed issues with the ELPA ada-mode improved.

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-- Stephe