Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03.06.2020 07:24, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 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.)

That "someone" was me as well.

> 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.

I agree it's a problem, but my (and not only mine) point was that adding 
the package to ELPA won't really change anything in this regard.

A namespace system would be a welcome change, of course.