From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: matlab-mode MELPA, link contact FAQ? Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:12:43 +0000 Message-ID: <87y48e6h3o.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87inzjw6fv.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460733322 16148 80.91.229.3 (15 Apr 2016 15:15:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:15:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 15 17:15:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ar5Sl-0007yl-RJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ar5Sl-00061F-5u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ar5Sh-0005yR-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ar5Sd-0005oK-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ar5Sd-0005nw-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ar5Sb-0007tw-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:15:05 +0200 Original-Received: from gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es ([147.96.12.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:15:05 +0200 Original-Received: from oub by gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:15:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130016 (Ma Gnus v0.16) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jIxFbpDIWEnAkpgn3wKwgHVUcnA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202956 Archived-At: >>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: >> I got the impression that MELPA is bit delicate a subject, since it is >> not GNU software, >> however matlab mode, which I partially maintain now, cannot be put in >> ELPA since we do not posses all the signatures of all contributors, so >> I have to use MELPA instead. > My hope/desire for matlab-mode would be to try and merge it bit-by-bit > with octave-mode. More specifically, octave-mode would accumulate all > the code that is not specific to Matlab, and matlab-mode would remain as > a package which depends on octave-mode and adds some > matlab-specific support. Agreed. I used octave quite some time ago and what I noticed was that the command shell interface was clearly inferior to that of matlab. However the matlab code was so, well matlab specific, that it was frustrating for me to try to import that code to octave.