Re: ELPA policy

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Large packages like CEDET should move outside of Emacs.git and into
>> Elpa.git.
> "Should" based on what? just the fact that it's large? I think we should
> decide this stuff on a case by case basis. For example:

I'm surprised you say this, Eli, because in another thread you agree that
packages like this should be in Elpa, didn't you?

>> If xref.el depends on CEDET, it would move to Elpa.git as well.

> IMO, the exact opposite: if there are core features that we want to be in
> Emacs no matter what, and those features depend on a package which could be
> a candidate to move to ELPA, that package should NOT move to ELPA.

Core should provide functionality along the lines of a "standard library" and
a "standard environment", where having them in core is as much a statement
about consistency of interface, as it is about universal availability of the
functionality.

Since xref.el does not need to depend on CEDET, I don't see a reason why it
should, causing CEDET to remain in core.

John