Re: how to help?

toby cabot wrote:
> I find myself with some time on my hands, and I've been using JDEE for
> a while now, so I thought it would be nice to give some effort back to
> it.  I'm a rank beginner elisp coder - is there anything I can do?

That would be great! Most of us are pretty time-limited, so any help
is welcome! I'm not all that hot on the elisp side of things myself
really, just picking things up out of necessity (again, mostly for a
lack of time to get into it properly). 


> For example, I notice that there are a bunch of warnings when the
> 2.4.0 branch compiles, do you need someone to fix some category of
> them?

That is probably a good place to start. There are many warnings that
are "references to functions that may not be defined".  One way around
that is to add extra requires statements at the top of the file, but
apparently a better way is to use declare-function instead.

There are also many warnings about deprecated variables and functions
which could be transitioned to whatever the new equivalent is (we're
aiming to maintain compatibility with emacs 22+).


>  I also see a note in the readme that the dependency on elib is
> going away.  Is there some fairly straightforward recipe for doing
> that?

There is a patch linked at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2834718&group_id=210946&atid=1015788
but it needs the addition of backward compatibility adaptors for emacs 22.

Cheers,
Len.

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