From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANN] New library stream.el in ELPA Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:20:46 +0900 Message-ID: <22054.5502.463509.428086@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87d1whk75h.fsf@petton.fr> <87si5djubt.fsf@petton.fr> <87pp0hjlhj.fsf@petton.fr> <5623E527.2090509@dancol.org> <22052.29613.785079.277399@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445336490 12036 80.91.229.3 (20 Oct 2015 10:21:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 20 12:21:16 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 1ZoU2T-00085t-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:21:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoU2N-00023J-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:20:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoU2J-000233-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoU2G-0002nC-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.96.25]:44156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoU2F-0002mx-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:20:52 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoU2A-0004TM-G1; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:20:46 +0900 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 698a9aa86de4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: steve@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 130.158.96.25 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:192174 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: > Although we have no hard and fast rule yet for what goes into core > and ELPA, I expect moving things into core to offer a better reason > than "because I want it there". Such a package should provide: > > - a basic functionality we expect to be commonly used, > - supports a package already in core, > - provides some justification for being in the default > distribution and thus subject to maintenance by the core > maintainers. > > If it can't answer those questions, it should be in ELPA. Of course, as Daniel was at pains to point out, there are cases where "it's just too Hello-Kitty-cute to not be in core" is an answer to all three (though the connection of cuteness to "supports package" is as tenuous as the smile on a maintainer's face, I admit ;-). Not-entirely-tongue-in-cheek-ly y'rs,