From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Torsten Hilbrich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dictionary.el could be included in main stream Emacs - Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 19:36:44 +0200 Message-ID: <57d98d63-5cdb-84da-72c7-be5c7d66a985@myrkr.in-berlin.de> References: <39133459-6582-4772-b2bf-03eb123cb22b@default> <20200928220307.GD18207@protected.rcdrun.com> <83ft71l3cf.fsf@gnu.org> <20200929041613.GH18207@protected.rcdrun.com> <833630ll5x.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7rfn0wz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <20201001141353.GQ4797@protected.rcdrun.com> <83o8lmgfyk.fsf@gnu.org> <20201001160523.GZ4797@protected.rcdrun.com> <83eemgg8k1.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4636"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 20:02:28 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kP8L4-00015J-Pa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 20:02:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44058 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kP8L3-0001Qw-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 14:02:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kP7wM-0008V4-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 13:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from einhorn-mail-out.in-berlin.de ([217.197.80.21]:51485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kP7wK-0005HO-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 13:36:54 -0400 X-Envelope-From: torsten@myrkr.in-berlin.de Original-Received: from authenticated.user (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by einhorn.in-berlin.de with ESMTPSA id 094Haj71007207 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 4 Oct 2020 19:36:45 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.42.142.2] by ricky.localdomain with esmtpsa (Exim 4.90_1 #4 (Debian)) id 1kP7wD-0005cc-0U; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 19:36:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83eemgg8k1.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-GB Received-SPF: none client-ip=217.197.80.21; envelope-from=torsten@myrkr.in-berlin.de; helo=einhorn-mail-out.in-berlin.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/04 13:36:46 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 04 Oct 2020 14:01:01 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257047 Archived-At: On 02.10.20 13:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Thorsten, I see you already have copyright assignment on file for > Emacs, and AFAICT contributions by others are very small and don't > require assignments. So we are fine from the legal paperwork POV. > > The next question would be how would you prefer to go about the > inclusion? There are several alternatives; the most convenient for us > would be to move the dictionary.el development into the Emacs Git > repository. Would that be okay with you (we will give you write > access to the Emacs Git in this case, of course)? > > If this is not acceptable, we can discuss other options. The inclusion into the Emacs Git Repository works fine for me. > Also, I think we will want to make some changes in the package. One > is to require 'cl-lib', not 'cl' (the latter causes a warning in > recent versions of Emacs). Another change was discussed here > recently: to add a feature that at first invocation detects whether a > local DICT server is available, and use that, falling back to a remote > server. This could be triggered by a special value of the > dictionary-server defcustom, for example, in which case we would want > to make that special value the default. > > TIA (and thanks for developing this package over the years). These changes sound okay. Torsten