From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>,
"Noam Postavsky" <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>,
"Sami Kerola" <kerolasa@iki.fi>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>,
"Alan Mackenzie" <acm@muc.de>,
sdl.web@gmail.com, "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Flymake support for C/C++
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:15:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdojBbdtkKWPtciQGxDWH9unnUkEU4EtM2xw2FO7AqLsiEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tvz2i2fv.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 14 October 2017 at 09:00, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> > Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:10:44 +0100
> > Cc: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>,
> > Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Alan
> Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Noam Postavsky <
> npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>, sdl.web@gmail.com,
> > Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> >
> > These days, it seems much better to use Flycheck than Flymake (that's
> certainly what I do). See
> > https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck
> >
> > It would be a pity for Flymake to become yet another part of Emacs that
> developers spend time updating and
> > users largely ignore; better to spin it off into ELPA, and if people
> still want to work on it there, fine. Meanwhile,
> > why not use Flycheck by default (in the same way as we've "in-sourced"
> Org and other packages)?
>
> I don't understand: Flycheck is an external package; why should we
> prefer it to Flymake, assuming that the latter will become supported
> well by the built-in major modes?
>
See
http://www.flycheck.org/en/latest/user/flycheck-versus-flymake.html#flycheck-versus-flymake
And I suggested precisely bundling Flycheck with Emacs.
IOW, what I see here is a serious effort to make Flymake a
> sophisticated and flexible syntax-checking tool bundled with Emacs. I
> don't see why should we object to such an effort, when one of our
> major goals is to provide a modern program development environment.
>
Because with Flycheck this is already accomplished. Why not work instead
on things that Emacs lacks? There are already far too many duplicated
packages, leading to duplicated maintenance effort.
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-12 15:09 [PATCH] Flymake support for C/C++ João Távora
2017-10-12 15:50 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-10-12 17:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-10-12 18:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-12 20:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-10-12 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-13 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 18:46 ` João Távora
2017-10-12 20:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-10-12 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-12 21:24 ` João Távora
2018-06-01 21:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-06-01 21:54 ` João Távora
2018-06-01 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-01 23:23 ` Rolf Ade
2018-06-02 10:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-06-02 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-02 18:13 ` João Távora
2018-06-03 15:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-06-03 16:28 ` João Távora
2018-06-03 16:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-06-03 17:02 ` João Távora
2018-06-02 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-02 15:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-03 13:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-10-14 1:34 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-14 7:10 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-14 7:58 ` Sami Kerola
2017-10-14 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-14 8:15 ` Reuben Thomas [this message]
2017-10-14 8:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-14 8:29 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-14 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-14 11:22 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-14 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-17 10:53 ` Phillip Lord
2017-10-17 10:56 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-18 4:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-18 10:18 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-19 3:26 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-19 7:38 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-22 23:18 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-22 23:23 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-24 4:12 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-24 9:45 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-24 9:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-24 9:52 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-24 9:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-24 10:07 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-24 10:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-24 10:28 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-24 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-25 19:30 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-27 0:43 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-28 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-18 12:16 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-10-18 17:30 ` John Wiegley
2017-10-14 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-14 9:33 ` João Távora
2017-10-14 10:56 ` guillaume papin
2017-10-14 16:29 ` João Távora
2017-10-14 16:36 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-10-18 12:22 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-10-18 14:26 ` João Távora
2017-10-14 9:29 ` João Távora
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