Re: dash.el [was: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs]

[Eli Zaretskii]

On May 17, 2020 4:38:40 PM GMT+03:00, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 17.05.2020 16:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>> Most people (somewhat wrongly) think of GNU ELPA as
> a*distribution*
> >>    > site for third party packages, like MELPA.
> >>
> >> Maybe that changes things.  If we present ELPA as just a
> distribution
> >> site.
> > If we regard ELPA just as distribution site, we shouldn't decide so
> lightly to leave important packages on ELPA, we should be tend more to
> adding them to core.
> 
> I would like to point out, as an author of several packages, that in
> my 
> experience having a package in ELPA is _better_ than having it in the
> core.
> 
> The exception to that rule is more or less cases where the package is 
> not only added but also enabled by default.

I'm saying that maybe we shouldn't agree so easily to put a package on ELPA if 
the author would like more than just distribution services.