Re: Package Release
>>>> "Y" == Yoshiki Hayashi
<yoshiki(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Y> Carsten Dominik <dominik(a)astro.uva.nl> writes:
> Could someone please decide what
> the policy about this is, so that I can make a patch to either
> files.el (adding an entry to auto-mode-alist) or to IDLWAVE (adding an
> autoload form which does
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons ("\.[Pp][Rr][Oo]\\'" . idlwave-mode)
> auto-mode-alist))
Y> I'm not speaking for the project, but IMO it is OK to add an
Y> entry to auto-mode-alist. There already exist bunch of
Y> package dependent entries. I don't think an error produced
Y> when opening .pro file without idlwave package is too
Y> annoying. Besides, auto-mode-alist has .idl entry. It does
Y> no harm to add another entry for idlwave-mode.
I still think there are better architected ways to do this, but we can
pontificate forever, so let's just add Carsten's entry to the global
variable for now. Yoshiki, could you take care of this?
Martin