Re: ELPA policy

[Artur Malabarba]

On 9 Nov 2015 10:06 pm, "John Wiegley" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> >>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
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> > This plan seems good, overall, But in the specific case of stream.el and
> > seq.el, shouldn't they be maintained in the core? I don't see stream.el in
> > the sources I fetched, but seq.el is small, in emacs-lisp, and it says
> > Maintainer: emacs-devel.
>
> If that's the case, then yes, it should be in core. I'm personally a bit
> surprised that a library of this nature is in ELPA, unless it was being
> provided and actively maintained by a non-core developer.

Seq.el was put on Gelpa so that it can be used by emacsen < 25. I'm very grateful for that as I use it as a dependency in quite a few of my packages already.