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paldepind / composable.el

Composable text editing for Emacs.
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Moving to Elpa #38

Closed Ergus closed 2 years ago

Ergus commented 3 years ago

Hi Simon:

Could we consider to add composable to elpa? The most complex part is to contact all the developers who contributed to this package with more than 15 lines of code and ask them to request a copyright assignment from the FSF; but with git shortlog -sne I actually see that you are the only other than me. I already have the assignment; could you try to do it please?

Best, Ergus

paldepind commented 3 years ago

Hi Ergus. Sorry for the delayed response.

Having composable on Elpa sounds good to me. I've sent the paperwork to FSF. I'll let you know when things are approved.

I think your work in #37 looks really good. You're obviously more experienced with elisp than me. If you are interested I would be very happy to give you commit access to the repository.

paldepind commented 3 years ago

Hi again @Ergus. I just wanted to note that I haven't forgotten about this. I've signed the FSF paperwork myself, but I also need to get someone at the university where I'm a student to sign it, and I'm currently working on that.

Ergus commented 2 years ago

Hi again @Ergus. I just wanted to note that I haven't forgotten about this. I've signed the FSF paperwork myself, but I also need to get someone at the university where I'm a student to sign it, and I'm currently working on that.

Hi @paldepind any progress on this? Remember that the signature is only needed for people who contributed to more than 15 lines of code or so...

Ergus commented 2 years ago

Hi @paldepind

I am considering to make another package with the similar idea than composable, But with a different implementation approach in order to simplify some things and add it to elpa. ANy help is very welcome... Best, Ergus

paldepind commented 2 years ago

Hi @Ergus. That sounds great!

Getting the signatures that FSF requires turned out to be a bit of a hassle, so I didn't proceed with it.

Do you expect your implementation to be backward compatible with composable.el? If so, would you like the MELPA package as well? And/or commit access to this git repo?

If you decide to do the development in a new git repo I'll be happy to link to it in the readme as a successor (assuming that it is at least somewhat backward compatible).

Ergus commented 2 years ago

Hi @Ergus. That sounds great!

Getting the signatures that FSF requires turned out to be a bit of a hassle, so I didn't proceed with it.

Do you expect your implementation to be backward compatible with composable.el? If so, would you like the MELPA package as well? And/or commit access to this git repo?

My intention is to give the same (or as similar as possible) final user experience; but with a completely different approach relying totally on internal features (like the internal mark-* set of functions, advises and some hooks). Simpler in code base and simpler for testing. I can't reuse any of the actual composable code basically because if their authors do not do a copyright assignment or a disclaim, then it won't be possible to add it to elpa in the future (it is a common issue that elpa has these sort of requirements... but... well.. can't do anything). I would prefer to keep using composable and do these changes progressively in it, to avoid code/project duplication and add the initial effort code to elpa... but that seems being impossible to handle. Something similar seemed to happen to evil/vile and many other packages...

If you decide to do the development in a new git repo I'll be happy to link to it in the readme as a successor (assuming that it is at least somewhat backward compatible).

From the user side it will be pretty close... sadly I don't have plenty of time these days. Probably I will sacrifice some customization or features details in order to have a simpler code base; but that will come out when I start touching it. First I need to find a way to add tests without ecukes and similes...

best