Re: [ANN] New library stream.el in ELPA

[Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>]

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On 10/19/2015 11:55 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> 
>> Daniel Colascione writes:
>>> I prefer keeping code in master.
> 
>> N.B. I have no opinion on stream.el itself. My opinion is that these
>> stdlib/package repo issues need to be decided case by case, and that in
>> general a bias toward putting stuff in ELPA is not a bad thing. A bias
>> toward putting everything in core should be avoided in the current state of
>> the art. [...]
> 
> Stephen summed up what I wanted to say quite nicely. Thank you!
> 
> 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.

So, today, M-x butterfly wouldn't have made the cut? That's sad.


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