Re: JSON mode

[Josh Johnston <josh@x-team.com>]

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Thanks Simen!

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thanks for clarifying! This makes a lot of sense.
>
> Cheers,
> Clément.
>
> On 2016-12-12 15:38, Simen Heggestøyl wrote:
> > Hi Clément.
> >
> > More than a year ago I contacted the author of the original JSON mode,
> > Josh Johnston, to see if we could get JSON mode included in Emacs. At
> > the same time it seemed like a good idea to remove its basis on JS mode,
> > since various issues come from it [1, 2]. We would also need to either
> > get its two MELPA dependencies into GNU ELPA or replace them.
> >
> > I had already written a JSON mode that I had been using privately for a
> > while that didn't depend on JS mode, and that didn't depend on any MELPA
> > packages (it uses json.el bundled with Emacs for the same
> > functionality). I suggested we merge our two modes before moving it into
> > Emacs or GNU ELPA. Josh then pointed out that everything from the old
> > mode was already implemented in the new one. So while the new JSON
> > mode's code isn't directly based on the old JSON mode's, it carries on
> > its name, its functionality, and the same default keybindings.
> >
> > Lastly we agreed to try and make the transition to the new mode as
> > smooth as possible for the users. I've released the new mode with a
> > lower version number than Josh's, so Josh's mode will still be installed
> > for those who have configured MELPA. By doing so I was hoping to get
> > more testing, and finding out whether the new approach is really
> > better. If it turns out that it's not, we'll just retract it. If it
> > turns out that it is, we'll increase the version number higher than the
> > old mode (for instance 2.0).
> >
> > -- Simen
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/joshwnj/json-mode/issues/32
> > [2] https://github.com/joshwnj/json-mode/issues/34
> >
> >
>
>


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