Re: Python mode failures with xemacs

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: What makes you think that? I don't think we have significant pieces of knowingly unassigned code (if you finally get hold of them, the usual reaction is "I have no idea whether there was ever any code of mine in there, but I'll sign papers if that may conceivably be of help"). But there are uncontactable past contributors in the credits. All _principal_ authors (those originally in the copyright notices) and all past maintainers and all authors during my active time as maintainer are covered, if I remember correctly. I've more or less ceased improving the coverage of past contributions because I am sloppy. I think if there were a major incentive for pulling AUCTeX into Emacs, its assignment coverage would likely be considered to pose a sufficiently low risk of anybody coming up with claims that could pose a problem. It was an honest mistake, and I never even thought of considering this a competition of packages. AUCTeX has nothing to do with CEDET, and I never held a grudge against anybody because of AUCTeX not being likely included into Emacs anytime soon (in contrast, it was important to me to move it to the GNU servers as a GNU project with GNU mailing lists, partly because this was an incentive for making people assign copyright and because it improved visibility and acceptance of the project). The one thing that really caught me off-balance is that anybody except Richard Stallman bothering about licensing issues and software freedom and available source code is more or less a spoilsport and alarmist raining on the parade. And Richard just does not have the resources to notice and deal with any such problem in the Emacs code base all by himself. This kind of honest mistake has become too easy to make. I actually was peeved, and the main reason again is laziness. I would like at some point to write a more sophisticated Lilypond mode for Emacs, and Lilypond is written using a Bison grammar, so it would be a good candidate for a CEDET-based mode and parser. The CEDET parser generators are not included in Emacs yet (even though the source grammars for various language modes have been pulled in recently), and I don't consider it feasible to start working on something like that when it won't be maintainable on a stock Emacs. Because then nobody will join in. But the parser generators and other stuff, which reasonably can be considered independent tools and thus are not mandatory for keeping the GPL of Emacs, will not be in 24.1 AFAICS but take more time due to source code management problems. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta