Re: SMIE

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

On 10.07.2014 19:00, chad wrote:
> On 09 Jul 2014, at 20:59, Matt DeBoard <matt.deboard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As regarding inclusion in GNU ELPA, I'm just a caretaker for the
>> project on behalf of the Elixir-lang people, but as it's already in
>> MELPA I'm sure it's fine.
>
> I would go a step further than Stefan and say that MELPA is basically the archetype of not-fine in this domain: finding a package in MELPA means, basically "someone, somewhere, wrote some code that might do something, in some of the versions I've had at some point". Finding a package in GNU ELPA (or a handful of other elpa repositories) adds things like "this version should actually do what's written on the tin" to potentially-interesting properties like "copyrights already assigned" and "can be fixed by interested emacs maintainers".
>
> I hope that helps,
> ~Chad

Hi Chad,

being able to use and distribute code written by "someone, somewhere,..." IMO is perfectly fine, it's the spirit of freedom.

OTOH that argument fixing by "interested Emacs maintainers" seems not to work that great as expected.
Fixing a language mode requires some knowledge of the language. Otherwise there is a risk of nagging the maintainer.

WRT to the pure amount of existing languages, lets have a friendly attitude towards Emacs' community contributions.

Andreas