Re: ELPA policy

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Jorge A Alfaro-Murillo <address@hidden> 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.

No, it wouldn't be just packages currently in core, we could consider others
for inclusion as well. AucTeX might be an excellent candidate.

I like that ELPA could give us better flexibility about what goes in the
tarball, without having to make decisions that directly affect core.

John