Re: [ELPA] New package: pspp-mode.el for PSPP/SPSS syntax highlighting

[Friedrich Beckmann <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de>]

Hi,

i think the benefit of having the pspp-mode in GNU ELPA is that I can load it in emacs via the standard elpa way, i.e. M-x package-list—packages and then select pspp-mode - which is working right now because Stefan included pspp-mode.el in the GNU
ELPA repository.

Until now I included the pspp-mode.el in the pspp debian package where it is then installed as an „external“ elpa package. The benefit is that once I install pspp, then the pspp-mode is autoloaded in emacs right away, i.e. when I open a .sps file, then the mode is immediately working. I think it is nice that I do not even need to know ELPA and the mode works in emacs right away when I install the debian pspp package. So maybe that is a reason to keep pspp-mode.el in the distribution. An alternative way would be  to find a way that installing the pspp package will „activate“ the pspp-mode.el from GNU ELPA.

Friedrich

> Am 04.07.2020 um 17:15 schrieb John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 09:12:33AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> thanks for your response regarding PSPP mode for emacs in GNU ELPA.
>> I think we can simply copy pspp-mode.el to elpa.git and do the necessary
>> modifications there.
> 
>     Having the development/maintenance of `pspp-mode.el` take place in
>     `elpa.git` is indeed the better option from where I stand, but
>     would `pspp-mode.el` then be removed from the PSPP Git repository (to
>     avoid a risk of the two versions going out of sync)?
> 
> 
> Probably it would be - but I don't think a decision has been made yet.
>