Re: php-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 19:42, Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2011-08-02 19:40, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 19:27, Stefan Monnier<address@hidden>
>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If we can track down all contributors to php-mode, it would be good to
>>>>> get their copyright assignment and then install it on GNU ELPA.
>>>>
>>>> PHP is a major language, so I think it should be included in the Emacs
>>>> distribution, ideally.
>>>
>>> Maybe that can also be done afterwards.  We'll cross this bridge when we
>>> get there.  But for now the GNU ELPA is open for new features whereas
>>> the trunk isn't.
>>
>> After following this for quite some time I wonder if it is not much
>> less work to just rewrite php-mode.el from scratch than to try to get
>> copyright assignment from all authors? (Those parts that are made by
>> authors who have signed papers can be copied. Some parts are trivial
>> and can therefor be copied. Etc.)
>>
>
> Aren't you the author of mumamo?  If you are, you're probably the best to
> determine whether it's easier to rewrite it or not.

Yes, I am the author of mumamo, but other people knows php-mode.el
much better than me.