On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:51:34 -0400 Stefan wrote: > Anyway, from what I understand, you have no intention of moving > smalltalk-mode.el elsewhere nor to spend your time with a 2-way sync. > In that case, I think it's best not to add smalltalk-mode.el to GNU > ELPA to avoid the risk of a fork.
i am not a member of the smalltalk dev team, they are listed on savannah[1] - i was only offering some general observations, anticipating what i would expect to be the response of most upstreams when asked to to do the things you are suggesting regarding the risk of maintaining a "stale" fork, i will say again that is the entirely responsibility of the person who maintains that fork, not the upstream - the states of downstream forks are simply uninteresting to the upstream - if the packager attends to the package diligently, then it will not go stale - in this particular case, i think the packager would find that the smalltalk emacs mode was probably complete 10-15 years ago - i would presume there is little chance of a fork falling out-of-sync, even if the packager completely ignores it, simply because the file is not likely to ever need changing [1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=smalltalk _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list help-smalltalk@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
