Re: Package Release

Dear XEmacs devellopers, I have a question about my IDLWAVE package. Some time ago (1.5years?) I submitted a patch to files.el (auto-mode-alist) which would turn on IDLWAVE mode automatically for files with the extension ".pro". This patch started a discussion if auto-mode-alist entries related to packages should be in files.el or if they should be installed dynamically by the autoload forms in package. I don't know what the outcome of this discussion was (I don't read the develloper mailing lists), but the result is that my package is not automatically used for ".pro" files and user have to install autoload forms by hand. This is not the way it should be. 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)) - Carsten PS. Please CC me on replies. Thanks! -- Carsten Dominik <dominik(a)astro.uva.nl&gt; \ _ / Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" |X| _ Kruislaan 403; NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam /| |\ _ _ _/ \ phone +31 (20) 525-7477; FAX +31 (20) 525-7484 __|o|___/ ~~ \___/ ~~~