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Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Ema


From: Yuan Fu
Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:02:31 -0400

There are many packages in GNU ELPA hosted on GitHub, for example eglot:
https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot

See the "externals-list" file in the elpa repository.


Another downside to adding one’s package to ELPA is the inconvenience.  On GitHub one can freely commit however he wants, receive PR and issues; but if it’s in ELPA, you need to take care of commit message formats, submit a patch and wait for someone to review & commit the patch.

I thought that the advantage of ELPA was that the author could develop the package independently of the strict emacs commit rules and he only had to pay attention to the copyright assignment.

I see. Apparently this is another example of the “misconceptions” about ELPA :-)

Yuan

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