From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA policy Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:23:26 -0500 Message-ID: <876114qyup.fsf@yale.edu> References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr> <56401834.8080402@yandex.ru> <83ziynma4s.fsf@gnu.org> <5640C6A0.5010709@yandex.ru> <83twovm9es.fsf@gnu.org> <868u65afvh.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87lha5snji.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <87d1vhsmuj.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <878u65slue.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <874mgtsjwn.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <867flp8nb7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9e33129a-07d0-4abe-a94e-32d6d881519b@default> <86bnb06g7g.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447578706 17044 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2015 09:11:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 09:11:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 15 10:11:37 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxtLV-0001Jq-Ad for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 10:11:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxtLU-0006Tk-NC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 04:11:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxeef-0003dn-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxeeb-0002X4-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41639) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxeeb-0002Wt-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxeeJ-00039A-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:30:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7Vo4qHW5CcVY2NAW6uYQIGO5B+w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194481 Archived-At: Stephen Leake writes: > Including a package in tarball ELPA means that the Emacs project > has decided that the package is sufficiently important to be > made immediately available to all Emacs users with no effort on > their part beyond installing Emacs from the tarball. > > That implies a certain level of maturity and quality, and > implies that it should be favored over other similar packages. Would that just be packages that are currently in core? Because AUCTeX definitely fits that description. I have always been curious as why it is not in core currently. Best, -- Jorge.