From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: CMake-mode Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:49:34 +0200 Message-ID: <877ds9fikh.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87mu15tw3d.fsf.ref@Ergus.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87mu15tw3d.fsf@Ergus.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87blhlfp7u.fsf@telefonica.net> <20201002005325.xew6i3ypgdmnon5j@Ergus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33449"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:QXteJm2af9h7iMEP0xKzWBfUPI8= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 04:51:12 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 1kOBA7-0008bP-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51760 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOBA6-0001k9-Sv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOB8h-00015r-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:58966 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOB8f-0005Ha-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kOB8c-00079J-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:49:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/01 22:49:39 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:256906 Archived-At: Ergus writes: >>> There is a package in melpa which is very poorly maintained by the >>> cmake community. >>> >>> https://melpa.org/packages/cmake-mode-20190710.1319.el >>> https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Auxiliary/cmake-mode.el >> >>And you think that we would do better? :-) >> > The package seems not really very maintained. [snip] >>> Could we consider to add a native cmake mode to vanilla or contact the >>> Kitware people to add this one to elpa? Or in the worst case to change >>> the name of their package in order to release the name and add a GPL >>> versioned one to elpa? >> >>CMake releases new versions quite often, so an elpa package (not to >>mention a vanilla one) would soon be outdated unless someone (TM) >>commits to keeping it up to date. >> > That's true. But actually the Kitware file supports only the most basic > keywords. Most of the new features, and syntax are not included there > any way. So are you requesting to include Kitware's incomplete cmake-mode.el into Elpa/Emacs or to develop a new mode (possibly based on Kitware's)? If people is not contributing enough to Kitware's mode what makes you think that once included into Emacs (with its added requirements about signing papers, etc) it would be better?