Re: a mode for algol 68

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> 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.
>
> OK, in that case everything should be given to add the package to GNU
> ELPA.  The only matter left discussing is if you want to continue to
> host the repository yourself and have the ELPA server mirror the
> repository regularly.

No.  I would rather update my page to point to whatever place where the
mode is hosted and maintained.

>>> 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