From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:47:00 +0000 Message-ID: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="109567"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 19:47:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jRfwy-000S68-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:47:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34532 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRfwx-0007oZ-Qx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRfwN-0007Fd-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRfwM-0007zT-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40140.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.140]:36298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRfwL-0007zD-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:47:09 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587664027; bh=7s84cwRwfNu+5UlHVyYE179Vz8m1w9SieiTqJK73PN4=; h=Date:To:From:Reply-To:Subject:From; b=XBfx/AqEHuLp+78pqxK7aJr+Yep76H3iE5rKiK2vnxb2zZCox77hBcZR/kX0+ab4v qpSDxyv0rmE9avsT4PO1sUkuAfnTm5FNOanDR3yiHgVq4mJwyfwLsJiCaZ1OpR/0LO KJlUy3ef4O5HRhFJ/2wFrYdDhpocmVh7uy3esuZY= Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.140; envelope-from=ndame@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40140.protonmail.ch X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/23 13:47:07 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.70.40.140 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247608 Archived-At: > The reasons why package authors would not want to include it Also, it may not even occur to the developer to include the code in emacs, because it works for him and he's happy with it. Is there an actual effort too seek out prospective packages and ask the code owners to include it in emacs? Or is it left to the chance that it occurs to the developer? What about current popular packages outside Emacs? Were those developers all asked?