Re: New Eglot release

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> After some significant work done to Eglot in emacs-29 the last few
>>> weeks, I'd like to make the 1.12 release so people can use it from GNU
>>> ELPA in older Emacs versions.
>>>
>>> However, one question remains from the merge: where to put
>>> Eglot-specific NEWS describing the latest user-visible changes??
>>>
>>> I'm not opposed to putting them in Emacs's own NEWS file, except that
>>> for this Emacs 29 version it'd be a bit akward, since Eglot just made it
>>> in, so the existing NEWS is about Eglot's appearance, not about what
>>> changed recently.
>>>
>>> I think, someone suggested /etc/EGLOT-NEWS at the time.  That could
>>> work, I guess.  But would anyone read it?
>>
>> Would using a "News" section in eglot.el (along the same lines of the
>> "Commentary" section) make sense here?  elpa-admin.el should pick this
>> up when generating news for elpa.gnu.org.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. It would make sense, but has the drawback
> that it makes a file grow a bit too much for my personal taste.  

  Depending on what your standards are, I think that if the news section
  only contained information about the latest revision (or the development
  revision), that the file size would be fine.

>                                                                  Do you
> know if elpa-admin.el can pick up etc/EGLOT-NEWS?  If not, I think I'll
> go with Emacs's etc/NEWS, which is the most visible anyway.  Maybe one
> day there will be way for elpa-admin.el to pick up the Eglot-relevant
> section there.

  No, to my knowledge none of the core packages don't use etc/NEWS or any
  other NEWS file.  Not that this shouldn't be possible -- I don't imagine
  it should be too difficult to hack up something like that if there is
  a need for something like that, especially since Emacs 29 has brought
  along at least two larger packages (use-package and Eglot) into the
  core, that might have their own separate audiences.

> João