Re: Suggestion: Make cperl-mode a :core package in GNU ELPA

Harald Jörg <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello Emacs developers,
>
> I would like to offer cperl-mode.el (in lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el) as
> a GNU ELPA :core package.

Great!

> Motivation: About once a year a new version of Perl is released.  Almost
> every version comes with syntax enhancements which can be supported by
> cperl-mode.el.  I recently added support for Perl 5.44, released in July
> 2026, to the Emacs master branch.  I would like to make this available
> to Perl developers before Emacs 32 is released.
>
> I have prepared cperl-mode.el with URL and Version headers.  The version
> is initialized with 32.0.50.  CPerl mode used to have its own version
> variable in the past.  This was deprecated in favor of emacs-version,
> so I guess the current emacs-version is a valid starting point. The URL
> should eventually point to https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/cperl-mode.html.
>
> I grabbed package-lint from GNU ELPA and the check passes without errors
> (actually, the changes were triggered by a conversation on GitHub).
>
> Are there any other things I need to do?

The package builds, so that's good.

> One step to be done by someone with permission is to add a definition to
> elpa-packages in the elpa repository - the patch is attached.  I ask for
> your help here.

I've pushed your patch to gnu.git, it should appear soon.