On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 07:57:46AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Feb 15, 2012, at 09:34 AM, Andreas Röhler wrote: > > >think it's basically historical. > > > >People interested in developing/understanding might check out > >and use the components branch > > > >https://code.launchpad.net/~a-roehler/python-mode/components-python-mode > > > >I'm doing all my developing and Python editing there. It's > >sometimes ahead several days, if new features are > >introduced. But the same tests are run before commits, so a > >possible loss in stability is mince. > > > >BTW in future we could create a declared stable branch of > >components and make two tarballs for release. > > I've always thought that because python-mode.el is a separate > download, it's better to have one big file. This makes it > easier for users to add it to their Emacsen, even though it > makes it more difficult to maintain, as rightly observed. > > But maybe we're at the tipping point where that trade-off should > go the other way. Good, discoverable, installation > documentation would go a long way toward alleviating those > concerns. I run python-mode out of the bzr trunk, so I'm > probably not a good use case. > > In a very real sense, this is Andreas's decision now. "He who > does the work, decides" and Andreas has for quite a while now > assumed primary ownership on the code, by virtue of his great > work on the mode. I have no place to stand in the way of his > decision on this.
Extending what Barry said ... python-mode.el already has a hurdle to overcome, as it's not distributed with emacs. I think a single file makes it easier for non-experts (I'm in this category) to drop in .emacs.d and run. http://marmalade-repo.org/about However, as the Marmalade server (hopefully) becomes a standard method for distributing 3rd party emacs packages, then multi-file python-mode will be a non-issue. Perhaps we might see some convergence in this direction? Agreed that the decision is Andreas's, and I thank him for his efforts. Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc. _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
