Description
The thrift-mode (contrib/thrift.el) Emacs syntax highlighter that comes with Thrift is good, but it's not quite compatible as far as Emacs package management goes. With a few minor tweaks, thrift.el could be added to MELPA, allowing developers to edit .thrift files without having Thrift installed.
Steve Purcell recommends these small changes to contrib/thrift.el:
https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/pull/973#issuecomment-22969265