Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Daniel Colascione]

On Sat, Dec 03 2016, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Eli.
>
> I haven't really been following this thread, but one tangential thing in
> it jumped out at me:
>
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 02:47:07PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
>> > Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> > Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 01:34:42 -0800
>
> [ .... ]
>
>> > What evidence would convince you that you were incorrect?
>
>> That's easy: a significant increase in the number of active developers
>> working on the C level.
>
> I have made quite a lot of changes at the C level, but I'm not really a
> "core C level" developer.
>
> However, it feels that an unusually high proportion of C level changes I
> have hacked or proposed have been rejected.  ("Unusual" when compared to
> lisp level changes.)  Examples include:
>
> (i) Changing the method of syntax.c scanning backwards over comments.  My
> changes found their way into branch comment-cache in 2016-03.  Despite
> this change having been extensively discussed in emacs-devel, and sort of
> "approved", the final patch was never considered on its merits.  The
> ostensible reason was that it used a cache which wasn't the syntax-ppss
> cache.

I'd forgotten about that patch. It's further evidence of the trouble
lurking here. How about landing that code now?