From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Creating a git branch for cond* Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:08:55 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36297"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 21:09:58 2024 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 1rT62u-0009Eu-Qc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:09:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rT627-0005pq-Fo; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:09:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rT623-0005me-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rT620-0006Aj-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 94915 invoked by uid 3782); 25 Jan 2024 21:08:56 +0100 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15d95.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.93.149]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:08:56 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 10997 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jan 2024 20:08:55 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.3; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:315390 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 11:47:36 -0800, Stefan Kangas wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > > What I want to do early on in cond* development is convert > > lisp/emacs-lisp/macroexp.el from pcase to cond*. > I think such a decision should strongly involve the people mainly > responsible for maintaining that file. Of course. It should be a decision reached factually after open discussion on this mailing list. I believe the benefits of this change would be substantial, as outlined in another post. But that is to be demonstrated after cond* is up and running. > Here are the top 5 contributors to that file, going by number of > lines: > 501 Stefan Monnier > 136 Mattias Engdegård > 88 Miles Bader > 39 Paul Eggert > 18 Alan Mackenzie > Going by number of commits, it looks something much like that (though > Eggert has more commits than Bader). Miles is no longer actively contributing to Emacs (unfortunately). If I remember correctly, he was the prime mover in implementing lexical binding, which probably explains his high activity with this file. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).