bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> Is cperl-mode.el in Emacs still not to be modified?

Yes.

> If someone reports a bug in cperl-mode can it be fixed without deferring
> to upstream?

Depends on the specific bug.

> (I have no interest in modifying it, but in the past you've basically
> said not to change it, IIUC).

That hasn't changed.  And it won't change until either our cperl-mode is
considered the upstream, or until there's a good two-way sync going on
between the upstream and our version.


        Stefan