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bug#5136: Request to update vhdl-mode and verilog-mode
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#5136: Request to update vhdl-mode and verilog-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:09:12 -0800 (PST) |
Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh.goorah@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Dan Nicolaescu <> wrote:
> > Chitlesh GOORAH <> writes:
> >
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > The following modes bundled in emacs-23.1-13.fc12.i686 are very old
> > > compared to the lastest upstream releases.
> > >
> > > vhdl-mode
> > > http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~zimmi/emacs/vhdl-mode.html
> >
> > Reto can you please send a patch + ChangeLog for the changes?
> >
> > > verilog-mode
> > > http://www.verilog.com/verilog-mode.html
> >
> > I've asked the authors for updates, they will be installed as soon as we
> > get them.
> >
> > > I would like to request these to be updated within emacs sources so
> > > that linux distributions don't have to package them separately. This
> > > request is related to the work done behind Fedora Electronic Lab to
> > > give people a complete FOSS platform for micro-nanoelectronic design
> > > engineering, thus making emacs one of the core tools for mixed-signal
> > > hardware design, coupled with other emacs mode not included in the
> > > emacs sources.
> >
> > Why isn't that mode included? What mode is it?
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't know why, but these are my views:
Packages are added to emacs when someone takes interest in them and
takes them through the process.
The most important is asking the authors to sign a copyright assignment
to the FSF for the package in question.
> irsim-mode (not included) has two features - highlight and
> indentation. Simple and can be integrated within emacs sources.
> spice-mode is very old however was designed to use with proprietary
> simulators. We are currently testing and ensuring that opensource
> spice simulators and viewers can be used with this mode. If you are
> interested in putting it into emacs sources, please take our patches
> that we are currently preparing.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544745
> Let me know whether you are interested in adding it to the emacs
> sources so that after fixing spice-mode, we'll close the package
> review and won't push it to our repositories.
> Similarly, for vhdl-mode (included within emacs sources), weirdly does
> not support ghdl or freehdl out of the box, but only proprietary
> simulators. Can your vhdl-mode maintainer for emacs can fix it and put
> ghdl as default simulator please ?
There's no "vhdl-mode maintainer" other than the vhdl-mode author. If
you have patches that implement what you requested above, please send
them to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org and they will get installed.
bug#5136: Request to update vhdl-mode and verilog-mode, Reto Zimmermann, 2009/12/08