From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="126336"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ndame Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 05:38:47 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 1jSBeQ-000Wm4-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:38:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57782 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBeP-0007mm-SX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:38:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBda-0006QP-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBda-0006BN-KE; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBdZ-0007ny-N8; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from ndame on Fri, 24 Apr 2020 04:28:02 +0000) 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:247746 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > An alternative could be adding MELPA too by default to package-archives, > but with a filtered package list. > This way out of the box emacs would be in control what can be installed > from MELPA, so there is less need to move the package into ELPA. Yes indeed -- and that is the drawback of that proposal. We want the developers of the MELPA packages that users like to sign copyright assignments so we can put those packages into GNU ELPA. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)