Andreas,
Thanks for the offer. I'll definitely send my code along to you (or
post is where everyone can get it).
- Bev
Andreas Roehler wrote:
Hi Beverly,
should I be able to assist you with some checks, please
feel free to send the code.
I run python 2.5 with
XEmacs 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070806) [Lucid] (i386-suse-linux, Mule) of Sun Sep 23 2007 on verdi
GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2007-11-24 on dede
Andreas Röhler
Beverley Eyre wrote:
Hi Andreas,
Well, you could be right, no doubt. But, I've started, and I'm going to
go through with it, at least for the top 2 levels. That shouldn't take
too long. The first level is, as you say, what features each offers.
That's pretty straight-forward. The second level I'm going to look at is
feature efficiency. I'm writing a short script that will perform a trace
on function calls for each feature implementation (.i.e. the python.el
indentation feature uses 'N' function calls vs python-mode.el uses 'M'
function calls). Also, I'm assuming that all the functions that are
written in C are equally efficient, which, of course, isn't true, but I
don't feel like taking this analysis down to that level, unless someone
can convince me it's necessary.
All that isn't too much work. Right now I'm wondering what is the best
way to report the results in a way that will be meaningful and useful.
Bev
Andreas Roehler wrote
Hi Beverley,
IMO exists no easy way to merge at all here in general.
Proceeding differs occasionally profoundly; results and
chances are only seen partly (at least for me). So I
wouldn't want to say: drop this form, take another and
rebuild with that.
After all the only useful way I imagine is to regard
form by form starting from an real issue/feature to
implement.
So my question would be: Do you see any feature in
python.el, python-mode.el doesn't deliver?
Thanks
Andreas Röhler
Beverley Eyre wrote:
I see that the initial emails that Barry and I exchanged are here, but
not the rest. Briefly, I'm going to take on the task of comparing and
analyzing python.el (GNU) and python-mode.el (Launchpad) with the idea
that a merged and better-than-either version can be created, and will
begin by doing the suggested inventory.
To get a quick idea of the size of the task, I wrote a script that
figured out how many functions there are and how many have the same name
in both versions (sans the 'py-' or 'python-' prefix). There are 81
functions in python-mode.el and 66 functions in python.el, 147 total. Of
those, only 9 have the same function name:
py[thon]-
backslash-continuation-line-p
continuation-line-p
current-defun
guess-indent(-offset for pm)
indent-line
mark-block
next-statement
outdent-p
previous-statement
I haven't actually looked at them yet, so I don't know if they are
identical, but in any case, it looks as if there is not a whole lot of
cross-over.
Anyway, I'll post more when I've made a little progress. I won't post
any my analysis here because of the probable size of the files, but I'll
put them in some easily downloadable spot, like the wiki maybe, and
anyone interesting in participating in a code review process can get
them and talk about it here.
Bev
Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Jan 1, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Beverley Eyre wrote:
I'm writing because I am interested in helping merge python.el with
python-mode.el and your website suggested that I contact you. I'm
happy that there is someone on Earth besides me who uses emacs to
edit python code and wants a better mode.
Hi Beverley,
I'm psyched to hear you're interested in helping out with this. I
think one of the first things to do is to inventory what's different
between the two modes. Then we should try to evaluate which mode does
common tasks better and decide what we'll take from each. Would you
be up for that?
-Barry
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