From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comment in verilog-mode.el about supported versions Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:47:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87h9609m0l.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1482155472 31598 195.159.176.226 (19 Dec 2016 13:51:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:51:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 19 14:51:01 2016 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 1cIyL7-0005Ut-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:50:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIyLA-0000z4-P1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIyKV-0000yj-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIyKS-0003ol-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:50:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47427 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIyKS-0003nd-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cIyKJ-0006ao-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:50:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PxdttzUBd9CamelZURnLBPm0I8M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:210631 Archived-At: > I could understand this comment in a version of this file > elsewhere, e.g. ELPA, but not in the built-in version in Emacs. > Why is this comment needed? > Is it OK to drop from the master branch this kind of comments? This package is sync'd with the externally maintained verilog-mode.el (same as for vhdl-mode, IIRC). The better way to do it would be to have this as a GNU ELPA package, and then bundle it in Emacs's tarball, but this plan is still just a plan... Stefan