From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Relation with package authors (CPerl-mode follow-ups) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:42:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87wtq6olso.fsf@marant.org> References: <1115190893.4278766d8332a@imp5-q.free.fr> <87wtqdn563.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115758002 16037 80.91.229.2 (10 May 2005 20:46:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 10 22:46:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVbbZ-0001dv-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 22:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVbkA-0002xn-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 16:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVbgj-0006tk-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 16:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVbgb-0006qi-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 16:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVbgZ-0006kn-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 16:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.228.0.62] (helo=postfix4-1.free.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DVbeA-0006cC-2t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 16:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from amboise (mol92-4-82-227-97-206.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.97.206]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A15528BC76 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 22:41:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by amboise (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BC5202C03E; Tue, 10 May 2005 22:42:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87wtqdn563.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 05 May 2005 10:08:13 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36957 Stefan Monnier writes: >> I've been recently in touch with Ilya Zakharevich (CPerl-mode author) >> about Cperl-mode bugs I found in current version from Emacs CVS >> trunk (version 5). > > Please post them here. I will do. Last time I reported one, you told me perl-mode did not have such a bug :-P >> He was kind to take a look at them and found out those bugs have >> already been fixed in 5.0 (I do confirm) and decided to stop >> investigating further. This means changes to the CVS version lead >> to regressions. Now, I'm left alone with my bugs. > > What makes you think so? Obviously someone else than Ilya must have caus= ed Last time I reported a bug, I had the impression noone wanted to maintain it in favour of perl-mode. I'm glad if not. > the changes between Ilya's version and Emacs's and it's quite likely > he/she's reading this mailing-list. Quite. ... >> Why patches to Cperl-mode have never been sent back to him? >> Isn't he meant to be the author of the mode? > > There was a disagreement about what the code should look like (I don't kn= ow > the specifics but my understanding is that Richard wanted some changes th= at > Ilya rejected), so his version and the Emacs version are not the same. > I do send him every patch I apply to Emacs's cperl-mode.el. I'm happy you do. How does he react to your changes? --=20 J=E9r=F4me Marant