From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:57:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="40520"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Emacs developers , ndame To: Yuan Fu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 20:59:15 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jRh46-000APj-9l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:59:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37380 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRh45-0002Ca-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:59:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRh2p-0001YG-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRh2p-0005rH-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yb1-f181.google.com ([209.85.219.181]:37345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRh2o-0005qz-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-yb1-f181.google.com with SMTP id n2so3694468ybg.4 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:57:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ehk1vtccgGQOp+Ku9YwCNzKUS2+W26TuT9i31Yd3dgA=; b=jU5QfYsFBObbnvGObWKqFltauY1lQJjmwByGZ1ZnsV0pWTUZkrePUzM7fdQbEWTbOW FZo2h0A8jyTcVybC79C+/92Nx9JdUY3KkBt9dnx1l5BE9RZ2cbe8zFbySz5fdCMxuzD4 M9W+daCdFPFpjDHtcnd4kD5YtG7o0dBitChInzTe0fsXz9RelO2sR3AXqb3IamvEM3RR v06C6/9n4GlD2VY8vnqi2rQ5JbTlgoN6kQAp9DaMvWvt4XZvH0mm4XsiEyi2QoM0PUHD qjaoyua3Wv+1wpToWes0wTzAzNLwgFuZtum2PxvQZT85Cq+NsnFc1GGbdouT1z11BB+w OlLA== X-Gm-Message-State: AGi0Pubhs4DRx7wnB4Bnfnn8qemKKRbgEjJYFCLzJjpQVLkxDsFSFvKc 9c5a4Gb81oV+cxEw7QpOrs7k7azNSTTd9UKBsCM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APiQypLO5deAUyy41HmpBR+w1ZVKxzvqSi42zFFK9Pokj8AKuQcJEDRe/iEoAvPCoq9pWn/T92h/w6mmecNyMTUcPlU= X-Received: by 2002:a25:c402:: with SMTP id u2mr9133083ybf.231.1587668273551; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:57:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=209.85.219.181; envelope-from=stefankangas@gmail.com; helo=mail-yb1-f181.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/23 14:57:53 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.219.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247611 Archived-At: Yuan Fu writes: > Another downside to adding one=E2=80=99s package to ELPA is the inconveni= ence. On GitHub one can freely commit however he wants, receive PR and issu= es There are many packages in GNU ELPA hosted on GitHub, for example eglot: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot See the "externals-list" file in the elpa repository. Best regards, Stefan Kangas