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Re: Ruby-mode in emacs
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: Ruby-mode in emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 26 May 2008 21:45:40 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Chong Yidong wrote:
> Phil Hagelberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Actually, the Ruby developers have already offered it to be included in
>> Emacs: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00051.html
>> It looks like there are a few things that still need to be done
>> according to Richard
>
> Indeed. The process, unfortunately, seems to have stalled. I just
> contacted the developers, and hopefully we can speed this process
> through.
Here's the text of the last email I sent, back in November. I had no
reply. The process stalled due to two problems the Ruby developers
had. I hope you have better luck. (I no longer have time to do the
comments.)
Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote (on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 at 18:02 +0900):
> * there were other contributers in past, but we can't contact them
> now.
Richard Stallman said that if the two of you are willing to sign
assignments, we can ask a lawyer whether we need to worry about
unknown authors. Can you estimate how much code these other
contributors wrote (in total, and per author)?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00364.html
> * detail comment for all functions is tough.
I would be willing to do all this work, if the legal issues can be
sorted out.