Re: Code for cond*

[Po Lu]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

> If you think COND* is better, argue for it using technical arguments.
> Someones health issues have literally no bearing on if something is to
> be added, to live in ELPA or something else.

The technical arguments have already been argued to exhaustion, and only
subjective issues remain outstanding, which a consensus will never form
around.  So what I see is that people are now clamoring to have the
feature they find to their distaste confined to ELPA on the grounds that
there is already a feature significantly overlapping in functionality in
core.  It is no coincidence that the feature being targeted embodies the
preferences of the opposing side, and between this and the fact that
such feature is a compromise enabling those on both sides to coexist, it
begins to appear that one side is not willing to settle for any solution
where their preferred macro is not the only option (which is the ideal
outcome, really, considering the alternatives).

With such features, the possibility of hosting them on ELPA should not
have been mentioned at all.  It is a guarantee of obscurity, not least
for potential users in Emacs core, for whom it is practically a death
sentence.