Re: Relation with package authors (CPerl-mode follow-ups)

[Jérôme Marant]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I've been recently in touch with Ilya Zakharevich (CPerl-mode author)
>> about Cperl-mode bugs I found in current version from Emacs CVS
>> trunk (version 5).
>
> Please post them here.

I will do. Last time I reported one, you told me perl-mode did not
have such a bug :-P

>> He was kind to take a look at them and found out those bugs have
>> already been fixed in 5.0 (I do confirm) and decided to stop
>> investigating further. This means changes to the CVS version lead
>> to regressions.  Now, I'm left alone with my bugs.
>
> What makes you think so?  Obviously someone else than Ilya must have caused

Last time I reported a bug, I had the impression noone wanted to
maintain it in favour of perl-mode. I'm glad if not.

> the changes between Ilya's version and Emacs's and it's quite likely
> he/she's reading this mailing-list.

Quite.

...

>> Why patches to Cperl-mode have never been sent back to him?
>> Isn't he meant to be the author of the mode?
>
> There was a disagreement about what the code should look like (I don't know
> the specifics but my understanding is that Richard wanted some changes that
> Ilya rejected), so his version and the Emacs version are not the same.
> I do send him every patch I apply to Emacs's cperl-mode.el.

I'm happy you do. How does he react to your changes?

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Jérôme Marant