Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA

[JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>]

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> On Feb 18, 2024, at 8:06 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:19:05 +0200
>> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
>> 
>> On 18/02/2024 09:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>>>   It deserves support in Emacs.  Just not, IMO, in core.
>>>>> Why not?  Why does_anything_, to speak nothing of a package already in
>>>>> core, not "deserve" support in core, while deserving support in ELPA?
>>>> Because in ELPA, users must proactively opt-in to the use of the package.  For such users — those who have actively sought it out — in stark contrast to the vast majority of Emacs users, the benefits dramatically outweigh the costs.
>>> The costs are minuscule, so it isn't worth considering them in such
>>> cases.
>> 
>> Those who say that the costs of maintenance is tiny, seem to have missed 
>> the simple statement
> 
> They did?

Indeed my repo diverged substantially from the version in core (>10 yrs ago), because the changes made in core were never communicated to me, and I didn't know to check for them, such that by the time I discovered them, the divergence was too great.  This all predated ELPA of course. 

I think on all sides this was inadvertent.

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