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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Jostein Kjønigsen

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