Re: "Write a new package" culture instead of patches?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17.05.2020 21:52, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Why are
> the authors of "helpful.el" not helping us mainline some of their great
> innovation, for example?

I think Wilfred worked on some patch or other, to upstream some of the 
improvements. But not the whole of it.

Maybe because it's a much bigger job: to port the code, to satisfy all 
the historically accumulated edge cases, and to spend a few weeks 
arguing with whoever thinks the previous behavior was better at least in 
some respect.

We don't really have a conceptual framework for assessing big breaking 
changes.