Sun Yijiang wrote:
> But the questions -- maybe a little off the topic -- are: Why did
> verilog-mode quit from the GNU Emacs distribution? Why does it want
> to come back again now?
>
There was no overt decision to quit anything - we donated it, it made it
into a distribution. Wilson and I continued to enhance the mode using
our publishing systems, under the GPL. With so much going on, I never
noticed that it stopped being a part of the distribution (because on
every system I used, I installed the latest and greatest in site-lisp
directory). Perhaps there was an email saying: "Author, are you still
there?" sent to my verilog.com email address, which I missed. Note that
Yes, perhaps. But `grep verilog src/ChangeLog*' and `grep verilog lisp/ChangeLog*' do not give any clue. So I still want to know when did
verilog-mode.el come into the distribution and when/why did it disappear.
I have during these last ten years been also working, consulting,
starting companies, having them bought, and so on.
Note that getting the mode into the distributions would be a good thing
because a good 10% of the mode is defensive programming to support folks
installing a current verilog mode on an ancient emacs that lacks recent
speed enhancements, while also using the speed enhancements if the mode
is installed on a current emacs (regexp-opt being a huge example).
Question for you: what would you like to add to the verilog-mode?
Wilson and I can set up up with the checkout & checkin procedures.
When/How to merge the two is another topic, so shall we discuss it later?
-mac