Hi, i think the benefit of having the pspp-mode in GNU ELPA is that I can load it in emacs via the standard elpa way, i.e. M-x package-list—packages and then select pspp-mode - which is working right now because Stefan included pspp-mode.el in the GNU ELPA repository.
Until now I included the pspp-mode.el in the pspp debian package where it is then installed as an „external“ elpa package. The benefit is that once I install pspp, then the pspp-mode is autoloaded in emacs right away, i.e. when I open a .sps file, then the mode is immediately working. I think it is nice that I do not even need to know ELPA and the mode works in emacs right away when I install the debian pspp package. So maybe that is a reason to keep pspp-mode.el in the distribution. An alternative way would be to find a way that installing the pspp package will „activate“ the pspp-mode.el from GNU ELPA. Friedrich > Am 04.07.2020 um 17:15 schrieb John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>: > > On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 09:12:33AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> thanks for your response regarding PSPP mode for emacs in GNU ELPA. >> I think we can simply copy pspp-mode.el to elpa.git and do the necessary >> modifications there. > > Having the development/maintenance of `pspp-mode.el` take place in > `elpa.git` is indeed the better option from where I stand, but > would `pspp-mode.el` then be removed from the PSPP Git repository (to > avoid a risk of the two versions going out of sync)? > > > Probably it would be - but I don't think a decision has been made yet. >
