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[76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id wh10sm31504813pab.2.2015.11.15.08.39.37 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 15 Nov 2015 08:39:37 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.attlocal.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 60814105D6B27; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 08:39:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <876114qyup.fsf@yale.edu> (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo's message of "Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:23:26 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo), emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230 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:194530 Archived-At: >>>>> Jorge A Alfaro-Murillo 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. No, it wouldn't be just packages currently in core, we could consider others for inclusion as well. AucTeX might be an excellent candidate. I like that ELPA could give us better flexibility about what goes in the tarball, without having to make decisions that directly affect core. John