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Re: Creating a git branch for cond*
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Creating a git branch for cond* |
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Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:08:55 +0000 |
Hello, Stefan.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 11:47:36 -0800, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> > What I want to do early on in cond* development is convert
> > lisp/emacs-lisp/macroexp.el from pcase to cond*.
> I think such a decision should strongly involve the people mainly
> responsible for maintaining that file.
Of course. It should be a decision reached factually after open
discussion on this mailing list. I believe the benefits of this change
would be substantial, as outlined in another post. But that is to be
demonstrated after cond* is up and running.
> Here are the top 5 contributors to that file, going by number of
> lines:
> 501 Stefan Monnier
> 136 Mattias EngdegÄrd
> 88 Miles Bader
> 39 Paul Eggert
> 18 Alan Mackenzie
> Going by number of commits, it looks something much like that (though
> Eggert has more commits than Bader).
Miles is no longer actively contributing to Emacs (unfortunately). If I
remember correctly, he was the prime mover in implementing lexical
binding, which probably explains his high activity with this file.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).