Hi David, From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Style system Was: Inconsistency in loading/saving .el files Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:14:47 +0200
> Pierre Lorenzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Ralf, > > > > I had a look at your patch : that exactly what I had in mind > > ; except that I would have implemented more tests to insure > > backward compatibility. > > > > Now this simple question: Is there a serious objection in using > > eieio to reimplement the style system ? I personally greatly > > appreciate developing such a system in a object oriented way but > > if you estimate that eieio is not stable enough or to > > complicated or whatever I know how to simulate object oriented > > programming in raw lisp ! I have done it many times before > > discovering eieio ! > > We would not want to have a dependency on an external package, in > particular when it is not copyright-assigned to the FSF. As > far as I I thought that cedet was copyright-assigned to fs but I might have make a mistake ! > can tell, eieio is part of CEDET, and Eric Ludlam was sympathetic to > having it made part of Emacs and this may well happen in the time frame > of a year or so. But we are not there yet, and AUCTeX should > for some So it is not completely forbidden to think about an eieio implementation of the style system which may become acceptable in a few months ... > time also continue to work with Emacs 21 and XEmacs (which has some > version of CEDET in its package system). > > So at the current point of time, I would prefer not having this > dependency. OK clear ! But I don't know if I will be courageous enough to write a reimplementation of the style system without eieio. If you tell me in few months that eieio is definitely not acceptable I'll probably try to convert my code. Pierre _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
