Posting large modes in gnu.emacs.sources

Posting large modes in gnu.emacs.sources

[Arjan Bos]

Hi all,

I recently finished (I hope) a new major-mode for writing NetRexx. It's 
60kb large. Would it be frowned upon if I were to post this in 
gnu.emacs.sources?

Kind regards,

Arjan Bos

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Re: Posting large modes in gnu.emacs.sources

[Stefan Monnier]

> I recently finished (I hope) a new major-mode for writing NetRexx. It's 60kb
> large. Would it be frowned upon if I were to post this in gnu.emacs.sources?

I don't think you'll be blamed for it.
It's really not that large.  But note that many newsservers simply ignore
large messages, so I recommend you post a URL instead.
Other people disagree and think the full source is better because it then
gets archived as part of gnu.emacs.source archive, so if you post a URL,
make sure that the location will "live for ever".
In any case, a good thing to do is to also put the package in emacswiki.org.


        Stefan

Re: Posting large modes in gnu.emacs.sources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:44:03 GMT
> 
> It's really not that large.  But note that many newsservers simply ignore
> large messages, so I recommend you post a URL instead.
> Other people disagree and think the full source is better because it then
> gets archived as part of gnu.emacs.source archive, so if you post a URL,
> make sure that the location will "live for ever".

So perhaps it's a good idea to do both for such large amounts of code.

Re: Posting large modes in gnu.emacs.sources

[Arjan Bos]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>I recently finished (I hope) a new major-mode for writing NetRexx. It's 60kb
>>large. Would it be frowned upon if I were to post this in gnu.emacs.sources?
> 
> 
> I don't think you'll be blamed for it.
> It's really not that large.  But note that many newsservers simply ignore
> large messages, so I recommend you post a URL instead.
> Other people disagree and think the full source is better because it then
> gets archived as part of gnu.emacs.source archive, so if you post a URL,
> make sure that the location will "live for ever".
> In any case, a good thing to do is to also put the package in emacswiki.org.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
Thanks, I'll do both

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