Re: [PATCH] support a few of the new features of C++11 in syntax highlighting

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > Then I guess the question is "why keep doing that?"  IOW, why not
>> > develop it as part of Emacs?
>> 
>> CC Mode also feeds into XEmacs.  This would be more difficult to do if CC
>> Mode were an integrated part of Emacs rather than being independent of
>> both.
>
> I don't see how would this be more difficult.  In both cases, one must
> checkout a foreign branch and integrate it into the tree.

Technically spoken, you're right. But it might be difficult to request
from an XEmacs user to checkout code from the GNU Emacs repository in
order to test the very recent patches.

Furthermore, there might be files which are dedicated to XEmacs only,
and not for GNU Emacs. This is the case at least for Tramp.

And contributions from XEmacs users would also be less frequent (not
that there are so many in the Tramp case :-(

Best regards, Michael.