Re: use-package.el -> Emacs core

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11/10/2015 08:34 PM, John Wiegley wrote:

> Well, it will be maintained by a core developer. :)

Quite a few packages in ELPA come from Emacs committers. Stefan has 
several (e.g. sml-mode). I maintain three (2 of which are comparable in 
popularity to use-package, judging by the number of stars on GitHub).

> It would also be in the
> Emacs manual, and blessed as an official method for declaring complex package
> configuration.

Packages can also include manuals (I don't know the details, but e.g. 
Flycheck does). Of course, you can't declare use-package to be "blessed" 
that way.

> Further, I wouldn't want it changing on users as ELPA updates. Once a user
> downloads Emacs X.Y and reads the manual on how to write such configurations,
> the information should remain true until Emacs X.Z.

Do you expect use-package to depend on new features in every Emacs 
version? Otherwise, you can have pretty much the same by only releasing 
a new version of use-package once a year. :)