Re: Current state of python.el in the Emacs trunk

[Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Don't trust everything you read, and don't assume every poster in
> a thread is actually relevant to the problem.  AFAIK most authors of
> python-mode.el would be willing to sign the needed papers and work with
> us, but it's indeed likely that one or two might pose problem, and even
> more likely that it'll take a lot of effort (if at all possible) to
> track down all those people.

I'm sure I've said this before, but when we last tried, Barry Warsaw
said he needed papers from a former employer, and couldn't get that, so
it wasn't worth pursuing any others, and it didn't look as if there was
enough information on other contributors anyway.  I may even have the
mail somewhere in an old archive.  As I remember, Stefan was one of the
people who had tried previously.  I believe someone else said they had
papers on file for it, but didn't according to the FSF records.  Anyhow,
the code I originally contributed was already better than the then
python-mode.el, after I couldn't get that fixed.  It also compared
favourably with the Eclipse mode and the Python IDE in Python, whose
name I forget.