Re: Brand new clojure support in Emacs ;-)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 16:53:38 +0300
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 01/09/2023 13:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>>>> They don't
> >>>>> think in terms of what is best for Emacs
> >>>> What if they do?
> >>> If they did, they would have agreed with us, or at least said they'd
> >>> like to.
> >> But we don't always agree between ourselves. Not on this subject anyway.
> > Those disagreements are not relevant when the issue is the inclusion
> > of a package in core.
> 
> So... are you also going to claim that any author of a package who 
> doesn't want the inclusion of it (or some other package, or sets of 
> packages) in the core Emacs, necessarily "doesn't think in terms of what 
> is best for Emacs"?

I agree with Richard: authors of packages don't necessarily think
about what's best for Emacs as a whole, and that we shouldn't expect
them to do so.  They are responsible for the packages they develop,
not for the development of Emacs as a whole.  I don't understand why
this is seen as some kind of negative or derogatory remark.  It is
just the consequence of the person's interests and responsibilities.