Re: [CEDET-devel] Spring cleaning
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From: David E. <de...@ra...> - 2013-03-05 21:21:25
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Eric M. Ludlam writes: >> - linemark.el > > Hmmm. It is used by the matlab-emacs project on sourceforge. And > someone copied that to support B++, or some language like that. Maybe we could check it in there, then. I'll look into it. >> - ast.el: This was used by David Ponce for the Wisent C-grammar, which >> is already in obsolete. I'd absolute love to see someone picking >> this up, but there's still a *lot* of work to be done to reach the >> same feature-set as our current Bovine grammar (like, extending it >> for C++...). > > There should be an unfinished projects area, like contrib. There are > lots of good ideas around that never quite make it, and just need > someone with the drive to make them work. I think the maven support was > like that for a while. I'm not happy with the 'contrib' directory at all. Most of the stuff there isn't working, and we regularly get bug reports about it. I also wouldn't encourage anyone to really work on that stuff, since we don't have papers for it. It's really unfortunate. I'd actually like to discourage people to use packages from there. Anyway, regarding and 'unfinished' directory for stuff like the Wisent C grammar, I'm all for it. What else should go in there? -David |