Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:10:50 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>>>> I'll commit cfengine3.el to the trunk tonight to beat the feature freeze
>>>> date.

SM> Why not put it in the GNU ELPA instead, so it can keep evolving
SM> independently from the feature freeze?

>> Because cfengine.el is in the trunk.  It doesn't make sense to put the
>> two files in different places--it's confusing for the users, they'll see
>> one and won't know about the other.

SM> Why not output a message from cfengine.el when visiting a version 3 file?

In my experience that's not enough to make the users notice.  And if
they notice, they still have the problem of "now what?  do I really want
to bother installing this package?"  But even assuming they get over
that hurdle, it's still a confusing situation.  Let's either move
cfengine.el to the GNU ELPA as well, or keep them both in the trunk
please.

Ted