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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Exceptions for certain files in ELPA?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 01:09:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc05b63e-263f-8678-cda4-c19d1430eaf9@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a322ec9-169f-fca2-f007-20e83f57558b@yandex.ru>

On 3/14/18 12:47 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

>> Would you please email me mmm-noweb.el?  I would like to see
>> it before thinking about whether it can be an exception.
> 
> Please see the attachment.
> 
>>      and reportedly still used by some
>>      people.
>>
>> Does this mean it is almost obsolete?
> 
> I've had to deal with a couple of bug reports regarding mmm-noweb in 
> 2015, and resolved both more or less satisfactorily. So I'm guessing 
> there are people who still use it, and it won't really be obsolete until 
> Noweb goes away. I think it's still used at some universities.

Another minor reason for it to stay: Noweb and mmm-noweb.el are 
prominently mentioned in mmm-mode's README and the manual as an example 
of Literate programming and MMM's support for it.

We'd probably have to find and document a different example, then.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-12 21:47 Exceptions for certain files in ELPA? Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-13  0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-13  4:36   ` Herring, Davis
2018-03-13  7:51     ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-13 22:17       ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-13 22:47         ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-13 23:09           ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2018-03-14 14:05             ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-14 16:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-14 23:10                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-14 21:02               ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-15  0:04               ` John Wiegley
2018-03-13  8:08   ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-13 13:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-13 14:42       ` Dmitry Gutov

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