Re: [jdee-users] Using `define-derived-mode'

[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès)
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.jdee.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Paul,

Paul Landes <[email protected]> writes:

> Switching to derived mode is a pretty big change.  Let's save this for
> a point release so we don't have too many (big) things changing for a
> release.

It looked to me that there were very few changes in the source code.
The diffstat says this:

  jde/lisp/jde.el |   41 +++++++++++++++--------------------------
  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

But more importantly, I think it's an important bug-fix.  See the
original bug report at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.jdee.user/196 .
I believe it makes it hard to use JDE for anyone non-elisp savvy, and
it's a significant annoyance anyway.

What do you think?  Did you ever hit this problem?

> As mentioned before, please post these patches to:
>
>   [email protected]

Oops, right.  Sorry about this.

> Also, it isn't necessary for more than one person to copyright, and
> usually undesirable, a source code file per year.

Per copyright laws, anyone contributing something "legally significant"
is a copyright holder.  Copyright lines like this list copyright
holders, so it sounds right to me to add such lines for all contributors
(see, for example, source files in the Linux kernel:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=kernel/audit.h;h=208687be4f30c8a2ddb432e3c1b8594fb85d2e8e;hb=894ef820b10d77e2d6d717342fc408bdd9825139 ).

(I initially spotted this because my ~/.emacs contains
"(add-hook 'write-file-functions 'copyright-update)".)

Thanks,
Ludo'.


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