[RFC] whitespace.el

[Didier Verna]

David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

> I'll try covering the GNU Emacs angle. This is made considerably
> easier since you have a copyright assignment on file, so at least from
> the licensing situation, you need not differentiate your
> contributions.
>
> [...]

Thanks for the feedback. I've just checked out CVS GNU Emacs, and guess
what ? our two whitespace.el are already somewhat divergent :-( Not sure
if I have the energy (or even the time) to sync again, which would be
the best thing to do before applying my own changes.

Point is, I already have one bad experience in this matter: I completely
rewrote rect.el back 1999, for both GNU Emacs and XEmacs (BTW, I'm still
listed as the official maintainer for this library). They agreed to
incorporate my version and some time after that, I discovered numerous
changes which they did not bother to report back to me. I'm not upset
anymore ;-), but I really don't feel like speding time and energy on
anything new in these lines unless I have some control on things.


Anyway, since 1/ now is not the time for them, and 2/ we're diverging
already, I'll probably apply my changes in the XEmacs package (and let
people play with it), and defer the "sync decision" to some time later...


> (the release should be any year now:

I see :-)

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