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* About moving built-in packages to ELPA
@ 2021-02-15  0:26 xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
  2021-02-15 19:12 ` Stephen Leake
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From: xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions. @ 2021-02-15  0:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Are there plans regarding to this?

Some packages require active development and some don't; two extremes that come to mind are Tetris and CEDET. The former is at this point a signature Emacs feature and lightweight enough to be a lisp package so it makes sense to keep it built-in. The latter would need to constantly keep up with the developments of the programming languages it supports; making it optional would free up developer time. (Especially taking into account that lsp based alternatives seem to be overwhelmingly more popular as per the survey.) If it is considered a core feature of Emacs, such heavy packages would benefit greatly from migration to C code.


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* Re: About moving built-in packages to ELPA
  2021-02-15  0:26 About moving built-in packages to ELPA xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
@ 2021-02-15 19:12 ` Stephen Leake
  2021-02-16  6:53   ` Zhu Zihao
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Leake @ 2021-02-15 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.; +Cc: xenodasein

xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

> Are there plans regarding to this?

It's near the top of my todo list, but I don't seem to ever get to it ...

> Some packages require active development and some don't; two extremes
> that come to mind are Tetris and CEDET. The former is at this point a
> signature Emacs feature and lightweight enough to be a lisp package so
> it makes sense to keep it built-in. The latter would need to
> constantly keep up with the developments of the programming languages
> it supports; making it optional would free up developer time.

Right; that is a benefit of being able to bundle ELPA packages.

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* Re: About moving built-in packages to ELPA
  2021-02-15 19:12 ` Stephen Leake
@ 2021-02-16  6:53   ` Zhu Zihao
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Zhu Zihao @ 2021-02-16  6:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Leake; +Cc: xenodasein, emacs-devel

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CEDET is a very large project, though mostly unmaintained, but there're
still some small pearls(like pulse.el, data-debug.el).

It's good if we can filter out these pearls and keep it in Emacs.

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Zihao

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