Re: how to submit new code to an existing package
steven Mitchell writes:
Is there a document that shows what the requirements are to submit
new
code to XEmacs?
The coding standard is mostly the GNU Coding Standard, which is in the
Info tree ("Standards", probably under "other documentation" in the
Dir node). I believe the variations we prefer are documentated in the
Internals manual, also in the Info tree. Both are distributed with
XEmacs itself.
There is a work-in-progress XEmacs Developer's Guide, which is part of
the 'general-docs' package in the XEmacs Package tree. Currently you
need to get it from CVS. I guess I should brush it up a bit and ask
Norman to release it in the usual way, or maybe move it into core.
The code went from ~400 lines to ~1800 lines.
With that much changed, is a diff still the best way to submit this?
Probably. The diff format doesn't get that much in the way of reading
large blocks of new functions. But just submitting the end result
means somebody will have to generate a diff anyway.
Also, the existing xpm mode was a minor mode that required a major
mode, we changed that so xpm-mode starts as a derived mode from picture
mode. Will that affect how the code should be submitted?
No. Since xpm-mode is not all that heavily used as far as I know, it
probably doesn't make any difference to the review, either.
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