From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CPerl-mode bug [Re: Relation with package authors (CPerl-mode follow-ups)] Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:03:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wtq6olso.fsf@marant.org> <877jgrj22g.fsf_-_@marant.org> <87mzp9bnrm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <20050630043416.GA14713@math.berkeley.edu> <20050630053339.GA14841@math.berkeley.edu> <20050630070427.GA15050@math.berkeley.edu> <20050630183237.GA16162@math.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120190602 10578 80.91.229.2 (1 Jul 2005 04:03:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 04:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmarant@free.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, cperl@ilyaz.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 06:03:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoCju-0006V9-9u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:02:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoCsH-00064g-NH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoCph-0004xy-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoCpd-0004vJ-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:08:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoCpa-0004sE-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoCr6-0003Lx-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DoCkK-0000hP-NX; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:03:20 -0400 Original-To: Ilya Zakharevich In-reply-to: <20050630183237.GA16162@math.berkeley.edu> (message from Ilya Zakharevich on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:32:37 -0700) 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:40003 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40003 Trying to maintain two separate versions was a bold experiment; I supported it for a long time. However, it looks like this experiment failed miserably - most of FSF edits are backwards in usability. Each of them was made to fix a problem. So they were improvements. If you fixed the same problems better, by all means let's switch to your fixes.