Re: [Q] Re: eiffel-mode.el

SY> Martin Schwenke <martin(a)meltin.net&gt; wrote: VS> Why not do this now, before this file becomes part of XEmacs? OK, I'll do that before the first version gets committed. Will someone else do the initial commit or will I? SY> Yep. Martin, please send me (privately) your public SSH SY> (version 1) key and your preferences for a user name. Done... VS> To me it seems that this file could be just dropped in (doing VS> the necessary changes in package-info.in and Makefile in VS> prog-modes) and the old eiffel3.el removed; and doing so VS> wouldn't break anything. SY> That sounds good to me. And in the unlikely event that something does get broken, it can be almost certainly be fixed quite quickly... :-) VS> One question, should we put a (provide 'eiffel3) into this new VS> file for backwards compatibility? Not needed, I think... SY> It probably wouldn't hurt to have that in there, but I SY> wouldn't veto the file if it didn't have it. I'll let you SY> guys decide whether or not you want to put it in. Would it be bad form to leave an eiffel3.el around containing only: (require 'eiffel) (provide 'eiffel3) It's gross, but it means we could have it both ways. If not, my preference is to leave it out. Actually, in a way, I'd prefer to break peoples' configuration so that they know a fairly big change has occurred... peace & happiness, martin