Re: [PATCH] Add prettify symbols to python-mode

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09/23/2015 09:22 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
> > It is.  Python.el's maintainer has worked on the elpa scripts so that
> > GNU ELPA packages can be built directly from the emacs.git source code.
> > This way packages like python.el and seq.el which want to be bundled
> > with Emacs as well as distributed via GNU ELPA can do so without having
> > to duplicate them between elpa.git and emacs.git.
>
> This is good, but I can't help thinking that the other way around would
> have been infinitely more useful.

These issues are intertwined: as long as we can bundle packages from 
ELPA into Emacs distribution, we can move certain packages from the core 
into ELPA without losing them in the distribution.

> In other words, emacs.git wouldn't
> contain any other eLisp than what it needs to bootstrap and pulling in
> everything else as a proper ELPA package while building.

That would be overdoing it: Emacs is not that heavy, and as Eli points 
out, pulling out too many packages would lead to difficulties with 
keeping the whole thing together.

At the very least, each "moved out" package would have to have an active 
maintainer (or several).