Re: adding packages to Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> > > While we are at it (adding calc and gnuserv to Emacs), why not add elib?
> > Did you have a particular need/use in mind ?
> no - I was thinking of JDE.
> 
> I found it strange that an ELisp package is distributed from the Emacs 
> directory.
> How is this package different from all the other ELisp packages? 
> I think the interesting parts should be extracted and integrated into
> Emacs,

That makes sense.  Do you know which parta are used by JDE ?

> and the package itself should be dropped from the emacs
> distribution site.

It can still be useful for people who want to install JDE but not Emacs-21.X


        Stefan