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Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs |
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Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:24:59 -0400 |
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Today I came across a message remaining from May 11 and concluded I had
better respond to it. I regret taking so long.
> > > Right. And I'll posit that including s.el into GNU ELPA, by itself,
will
> > > not hurt any of these three goals.
> >
> > It would mess up the naming in GNU Emacs, making two incongruous
> > systems.
> Not in GNU Emacs, though.
Yes, in GNU Emacs. If we have s.el in GNU ELPA under current
conditions, that will put the s- namespace of GNU Emacs outside our
control. (Indeed, someone claimed it is already de facto outside our
control.)
It is a big problem that other people, without even consulting us, can
take major parts of the Emacs Lisp namespace away from us.
Maybe we can correct this general problem in a general way with a
system of namespaces. I hope so. But denying the problem is not
solving it.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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