Re: A new major-mode for Python

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> So rather than replace our python.el with yours, I offer you to take
> over maintainership of our python.el.  This may sound like a crappy
> offer (why would you maintain some old code you don't like when you
> already have your own that works better, right?), but note that, as
> a maintainer of our python.el, you'll have the opportunity to replace
> pretty much any of "our" code with yours, thus morphing our python.el
> into yours.
>
> Another way to look at it, is that I'm asking you to take a "diff
> old-python.el new-python.el" and cut it into manageable and meaningful
> patches, so it is easier to see that it is moving forward.

100% agreement.

Scanning through your version of python.el, the code looks to be of good
quality.  As Stefan said, merging it into our existing python.el is much
better than setting up a wholesale replacement.  Among other things,
features won't get lost.  So I hope you will agree to take this on.


Should you be willing, we'll need a copyright assignment for your
contributions to Emacs.  This can be done by emailing the following
information to fsf-records@gnu.org; they will send you the assignment
form for your past and future changes.

Please use your full legal name (in ASCII characters) as the subject
line of the message.  Thanks.
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