From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: adding new modes Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:08:55 +0200 Message-ID: <85mz03wf6g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200705161649.l4GGngSD026759@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179429023 30848 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2007 19:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 17 21:10:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HolMe-0002rD-9B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 21:10:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HolUl-0004En-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:18:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HolUi-0004EY-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HolUh-0004EM-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HolUh-0004EJ-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HolMY-0002ti-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.30]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B9B2B2B27; Thu, 17 May 2007 21:10:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D48D81B8E10; Thu, 17 May 2007 21:10:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-048-000.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.48.0]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194632AF42A; Thu, 17 May 2007 19:08:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C5D451C4CE32; Thu, 17 May 2007 19:08:55 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu\, 17 May 2007 10\:55\:44 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71263 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> What is the standard procedure for adding new modes to emacs (if >> there's any)? I would be nice to see at least add verilog-mode and >> vera-mode. > > Basically, suggest it here, arguing why it's necessary. Also the authors > should be willing to sign the relevant legal paperwork. > >> There was talk at some point about adding php-mode. >> Also some more vc back-ends would be good: vc-hg, vc-git, and maybe vc-p= 4.el > > It all sounds OK to me, except for vc-p4 since p4 is non-free. vc-git is not of release-quality (C-u C-x v =3D usually chokes while trying to propose a "previous version"). However, the Emacs 23 release is not exactly around the door, and having it synched into Emacs-CVS might be nice. At the current point of time, it is maintained in git's git repository. Not all people with write access there will have a copyright assignment. So one would have to check who actually wrote stuff in it. We seem to have Xavier Maillard, David K=E5gedal, Jakub Narebski, Alexandre Julliard, Sam Vilain, Karl Hasselstr=F6m, Ville Skytt=E4, Tom Prince (trivial change). So that is not exactly an entirely small list. I can ask on the git list if people think this a good idea. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum