Re: CEDET Merge

[Lee Hinman]

David Engster <address@hidden> writes:

> Dmitry Gutov writes:
>> On 18.01.2017 00:06, David Engster wrote:
>>
>>> That's great, thanks. You will need to remove quite some stuff from
>>> there that is not in Emacs, like everything Java related, the Fortran
>>> tests, ede/arduino, cogre...
>>
>> Is that a good idea? If CEDET development is going to proceed inside
>> Emacs from now on, why would you remove Java support?
>
> CEDET's Java support was never in Emacs, and the CEDET repository will
> not vanish, so we're not really removing anything. Anybody can port the
> Java support to Emacs or ELPA later.
>
>> Is it in a really bad shape?
>
> To my knowledge, nobody has been working on it for quite some time, so
> I'd be surprised if it worked with today's typical Java code.

CEDET's Java support works pretty well actually. I use it every day for
my day job. It'd be great if it could be included (eventually if not
part of this) in Emacs-proper.

Of course it could be improved since it's a little out of date, but
it remains useful.