John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> writes:

>>>>>> Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:
>
>> What if I extract it in a thunk.el library and install it in master (with
>> proper tests), and have stream.el use that? (I could also put stream.el in
>> Emacs, but Stefan thought it would be better to have it in ELPA).
>
> Probably I'd prefer to see thunk.el in master, and stream.el in ELPA, since
> the latter is a bit more special-cased and "implemented in terms of
> core".

Agreed.

> We should talk about where to draw "the ELPA divide" at some point too. Core
> Emacs sort of has at least two separate roles: Functionality the Emacs
> developers have standardized on -- as a common framework to build packages
> upon -- and packages that should really be installed anywhere Emacs is
> installed.

I think that would be a fair definition of "the ELPA divide".

Nico