> On Feb 18, 2024, at 8:06 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:19:05 +0200 >> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: Dmitry Gutov >> >> 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.