Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el]

[Óscar Fuentes]

Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>> GNU ELPA (enabled by default with Emacs, unlike MELPA or Marmalade).
>
> Apropos: Why shouldn't GNU Emacs enable all three by default?
>
> That would help GNU Emacs users more, I think.

One easy answer is that MELPA and Marmalade are non under the control of
the Emacs prooject.

A more serious concern is that some (all?) of the packages MELPA offers
are development versions (i.e. unreleased, mostly untested). I know of
at least one case where unwary users obtained from MELPA a broken
package, causing much grief among users and developers alike.