From: "Jostein Kjønigsen" <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:28:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1534757322.75605.1479728696.2BF2BB66@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <866005o2ko.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, at 10:38 AM, Andy Moreton wrote:
> On Sun 19 Aug 2018, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please
>> consider ]]]>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
>> ]]]>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's
>> example. ]]]>>
>> > So, distributing CC-mode as a GNU ELPA package (like we already
>> > do for>> > python.el, org-mode, and a few other bundled packages) would
>> > solve this>> > problem, right?
>>
>> The Emacs release needs to include CC-mode.
>
> Releasing an ELPA package in addition to the built-in version allows
> users an easy way to upgrade their emacs installation to use a newer
> version of CC mode without having to wait for the next emacs release.>
> AndyM
>
>
As I've mentioned in another reply on this subject, decoupling cc-mode
releases from Emacs-releases will make it harder for third-party major-
modes deriving from cc-mode to maintain compatibility when cc-mode
introduces breaking changes.
Currently we can inspect "cc-mode version" by checking emacs-version,
and dispatching compatible code based on that.
With such a decoupling, this will no longer be possible, and we should
find a new way to give third-party major-modes dependant on cc-mode to
ensure compatibility.
Maybe cc-mode should ship with its own programmatically accessible version-
number to check against?
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Regards
Jostein Kjønigsen
jostein@kjonigsen.net 🍵 jostein@gmail.com
https://jostein.kjonigsen.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-20 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-06 20:24 Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs Ludwig PACIFICI
2018-08-11 14:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-08-12 0:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-19 11:16 ` Ludwig PACIFICI
2018-08-19 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-20 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-20 8:38 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-20 9:28 ` Jostein Kjønigsen [this message]
2018-08-20 10:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-20 11:28 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-20 17:54 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-08-20 19:45 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-22 12:46 ` Noam Postavsky
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