Re: GNU ELPA package for CC-mode

[Jostein Kjønigsen]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, at 4:06 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

I just tested the construction of a GNU ELPA package for CC-

mode using>>> the :core thingy of elpa.git and everything looks good.

Who's going to be testing this?  I've a slight suspicion that

sometimes>> people add things to CC Mode that depend on things in master.

That would>> be subotimal for ELPA.

This has not proved to be a problem for other packages we handle this> way

(e.g. soap-client, python.el, ...).

One of the reasons is that it's so cheap&quick to release a new

version> that such problems are trivial to solve if/when they show up.

cc-mode is not only used inside core Emacs, but also by third party

developers.

[...]

I'm not suggesting to remove CC-mode from Emacs.  Only to *additionally*

distribute it via GNU ELPA.

        Stefan

I realize that.

I was just pointing out how that can make handling compatibility harder than it used to be for packages and major-modes which derives from cc-mode.

It seems though, as my suggestion to make this less of a problem (separate versioning for cc-mode accessible through programmatic means, c-version) is already implemented and in place, and as a third-party package author, I can transition to verify against that instead of emacs-version.

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