Re: [Quilt-dev] Bug#345988: please add quilt mode for emacs

[Martin Quinson]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:14:58PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:21:38AM -0500, Dave Dodge wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:56:12AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > > If you do incorporate it: I've attached a patch which improves
> > > > > quilt-mode's handling of new or deleted files.
> > > > 
> > > > What about sending this patch to Matt Mackall for upstream integration?
> > > 
> > > I sent it to address@hidden back in August.  I didn't get any response,
> > > and the copy on the website is still dated February 2005.
> > 
> > What about integrating both the upstream version and the patch into the
> > quilt tarball directly? Any licensing issue?
> 
> Doesn't sound like a good idea to me, this will probably add to
> confusion for a very thin (negative?) added value. Merging with
> upstream first and having a single file to deal with seems a better
> approach to me.

I am now convinced. I agree that the benefit of merging the emacs mode with
quilt itself would be rather thin. For the debian package, that's something
else, I guess I'll include this to save the administrative load.

The main issue is that I'm not sure I have the ability to actually maintain
this code (and I keep my finger away from the quilt code as much as possible
for the same reason). Andreas, are you a vi dude or an emacs one?  O:-)

So, either in quilt itself or anywhere else, that's always the same
question: who will maintain the code?


Bye, Mt.

-- 
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be
maintained.
          -- The Tao of programming

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