Re: Upcoming merge of adaptive-wrap

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> There is a particular advantage for optional features being in ELPA:
> people can browse it and search the list of keywords. It serves as a
> tool for discovery for many.
>
> When the package is in the core, it doesn't appear in any of similar
> structured lists, you really have to hunt around for discover those
> features.

Such arguments can only be evaluated in the abstract, whereas I have one
concrete example of a counterproductive effect of ELPA at hand:
adaptive-wrap.  And several more I have observed anecdotally but have
never experienced myself.

> That's incorrect.
>
> And we also have the example of the popular open source text editor
> (which is dominating the rating on stackoverflow, etc) which puts a
> lot of language features in the packages' repository.

We are miscommunicating.  adaptive-wrap is decidedly not a language
feature, it is a text editing feature, such as is supposed to be the
part and parcel of Emacs.

Thanks for your input, but I'm not convinced and this collection of
largely irrelevant information will not affect the installation of
adaptive-wrap.