From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:38:15 +0100 Message-ID: <866005o2ko.fsf@gmail.com> References: <53cad8eb-9bf1-e2d3-90cf-10a9874bf69b@lud.cc> <20180811145124.GA4992@ACM> <4e10dfa3-4793-f680-8a85-78a489884cad@lud.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534754195 20845 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2018 08:36:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 08:36:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 10:36:31 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1frffm-0005EK-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:36:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frfht-0004ov-BP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:38:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60355) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frfhm-0004oe-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frfhi-0001Io-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45021 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frfhi-0001IT-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1frffa-00051O-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:36:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:4SfECe5bqvCdbxsHaHmaVS85E70= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228715 Archived-At: 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