Re: ELPA policy

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Stephen Leake writes:

> Including a package in tarball ELPA means that the Emacs project 
> has decided that the package is sufficiently important to be 
> made immediately available to all Emacs users with no effort on 
> their part beyond installing Emacs from the tarball. 
>
> That implies a certain level of maturity and quality, and 
> implies that it should be favored over other similar packages.

Would that just be packages that are currently in core? Because 
AUCTeX definitely fits that description. I have always been 
curious as why it is not in core currently.

Best,
--
Jorge.