Re: Developing a PHP package

[Stefan Monnier]

> the emacs core would have my preference. Is there interest in having
> such a package in the emacs core?

I'll let Emacs maintainers decide whether they want it in the core, but
I'd be happy to add it to GNU ELPA.  In both cases we'd first need you
to sign some copyright paperwork anyway.  If you're OK with that, please
fill the form after my sig and send it to the FSF as instructed so they
can send you the appropriate paperwork to sign.

> - I have read that there is work being done on incorporating lib
>   tree-sitter in emacs, would tree-sitter make a package like mine
>   obsolete?

Could be, but in my experience, there's often room for several competing
solutions anyway.

> - The parser is currently only used for completion, but could
>   theoretically also be used (with some modifications) to do syntax
>   highlighting and indentation, making for somewhat of an alternative to
>   PHP-mode in the future.  Would there be interest in something like
>   that?

Yes.  Better would be for it to be a *complement* rather than an
alternative, so that improvements don't need to be duplicated in the
two packages.

> - The package has a dependency on a bash script that uses some GNU
>   coreutils (find, grep) and diff from GNU diffutils. The script is used
>   to find files containing definitions of PHP classes and namespaces,
>   but not for any of code parsing. What is the policy for emacs packages
>   having dependencies on external programs like that?

Emacs already has such dependencies (e.g. `M-x diff`, `M-x grep`, ...),
so that's not a problem.  Some of your users may be affected (typically
under Windows), but that's secondary (it's only a matter of "quality"
than policy).

Do you have a Git repository for your code somewhere?


        Stefan


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