Bug#1013298: O: flycheck -- modern on-the-fly syntax checking for Emacs
On 2023-06-06 23:05:04, Denis Danilov wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
>
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 12:00:02PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> I intend to adopt the package. It seems like the next step for the
>> package is to update it to the latest release (32) from May 2022.
>>
>> Have you tried doing that upgrade or is there any peculiar reason why
>> we're at a git snapshot still?
>
> From a technical perspective there is no reason to stay on the git snapshot
> version. Salsa repo https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/flycheck is already
> updated to latest flycheck release 32. But I did not manage to find a sponsor
> to upload it. That's one part of the problem. Another part of it: people
> ignore the salsa repo and prefer to stick to git snapshot (for whatever
> reason), see recent versions 32~git.20200527.9c435db3-3 and
> 32~git.20200527.9c435db3-4. Hopefully you will have more luck to sort the
> things out.
Oh. Weird. Looks like the team didn't do its job then, that's
unfortunate.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll make sure to include your good work!
As an aside, do you have any thoughts on flymake in recent Emacs
releases? Is flycheck still relevant?
I've asked upstream to update their comparison to get a better idea:
https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck/issues/2023
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