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: Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 08:31:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <53cad8eb-9bf1-e2d3-90cf-10a9874bf69b@lud.cc> <20180811145124.GA4992@ACM> <4e10dfa3-4793-f680-8a85-78a489884cad@lud.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534681805 20598 195.159.176.226 (19 Aug 2018 12:30:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 12:30:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 14:30:01 2018 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 1frMqH-0005Fw-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:30:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42761 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frMsN-0004Pf-Hl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 08:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frMrd-0004PZ-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 08:31:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frMra-0001lU-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 08:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43076 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frMrZ-0001ij-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 08:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1frMpP-0004Bv-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:29:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sqCV0+R6lgG+tc+wxZkz2gEiXTo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:228679 Archived-At: > I believe the issue is broader than m-c-f-l and cc-mode. The difference > between an Emacs release cycle (where Emacs provides a built-in support for > some languages, like cc-mode, python, ruby-mode, etc.) and the release cycle > of a language can lead to a long delay to get things right (such as font > locking). Having the language support delivered via a package manager makes > the updates less dependent of release cycles. So, distributing CC-mode as a GNU ELPA package (like we already do for python.el, org-mode, and a few other bundled packages) would solve this problem, right? Stefan