Re: a mode for algol 68

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> On 2023/11/30 07:10:20 +0000, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>> Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> writes:
>> 
>> > (please Cc: me since I'm not subscribed to this list)
>> >
>> > Two years ago I started hacking on Jose E. Marchesi' algol-mode (that
>> > I've renamed a68-mode) while I was playing with the algol68g compiler.
>> > Truth to be told, I think I've spent more time hacking on the emacs mode
>> > that with the language itself, but anyway...
>> >
>> > I haven't touched the mode any more for the last two years, and I doubt
>> > I'll hack again on it in the future.  Although it's almost finished,
>> > there remains issues with the indentation and font-locking in some
>> > cases.
>> >
>> > My hope would be that some friendly hacker would take interest in
>> > maintaining it and maybe even distribute it in ELPA / NonGNU Elpa.
>> 
>> I think it would be very nice to have this added to GNU ELPA.  If the
>> code works (and I see it isn't too much), it shouldn't be too much of a
>> maintenance burden, so I'd be fine with helping out.
>> 
>> > On the copyright side, I don't know Jose E. Marchesi and I copied
>> > initial the code from some random github repository.  Not great, I know,
>> > but it was the only major mode for algol68.  However, I *do* have an FSF
>> > copyright assignment and I ended up rewriting almost all of the code in
>> > the end.  I paied attention to do the 'initial import' with the original
>> > code as-is and do my changes on top.  It's 53 commits in total.
>> 
>> I cannot evaluate this myself, do you a link to the original GitHub
>> repository?
>
> I took the code from
> https://github.com/lachrymology/me/blob/master/.emacs.d/extras/algol-mode.el
> but upon a closer look it seems to originate from here:
> https://www.jemarch.net/algol68.html
>
> I'm cc'ing Jose E. Marchesi using the mail found on (presumibly) their
> website.  Having a @gnu.org account makes me think that there shouldn't
> be copyright issues :-)

I have papers in place for Emacs, and I am totally willing to transfer
the copyright for a68-mode.el's original code (whatever of it survives
in latest algol-mode.el) to the FSF.


> I apologize for not searching better initially, I should have contacted
> Marchesi in the first place.  I somehow have completely missed their
> website.
>
>> > The code is available here for browsing here:
>> > <https://git.omarpolo.com/?action=summary&path=a68-mode.git>
>> > and can be cloned with git via anonymous SSH via
>> > <ssh://anon@omarpolo.com/a68-mode.git> or with HTTPS via
>> > <https://git.omarpolo.com/a68-mode.git>.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Omar Polo