Re: [PATCH] support a few of the new features of C++11 in syntax highlighting

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:07:43 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > I'm curious: how did we get to this point?
> 
> We've never been anywhere else.  CC Mode developement has always taken
> place mainly in its own project at SourceForge.

Then I guess the question is "why keep doing that?"  IOW, why not
develop it as part of Emacs?

> > Shouldn't such development take place on trunk, or a branch that's
> > regularly sync'd with Emacs's trunk?
> 
> Absolutely not.  That would risk having incoherent code automatically
> transferred to Emacs.

You can always use a public branch as part of the Emacs repository,
"cc-mode-unstable", say, and merge from it to trunk when you see fit.
Then this issue won't exist.