Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10.05.2020 20:58, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > And really, do you expect to be able to enable Eglot by default
> > anytime soon?
> No, I'm just pointing out that existence of alternatives should be
> prevent integration.  I would also say that having Eglot in core
> shouldn't necessarily prevent inclusion of LSP-mode in core either.

By alternative solutions, I actually meant non-LSP projects (some of 
them old) like etags/irony/cider/repl-based completion providers, and so 
on. Every one of them has some existing userbase not in a hurry to 
install language servers.

> I always strongly favor merging alternatives (at least by sharing as
much code as possible), but there are several examples where we
have such alternatives in core.
E.g. expand.el -vs- skeleton.el -vs- tempo.el,
perl-mode -vs- cperl-mode,
pascal-mode -vs- opascal-mode,

I guess it's a personal opinion, but while having major modes for #10 
most popular languages in vanilla Emacs is a good idea, I'd rather have 
everything else in ELPA. Unless including a package in vanilla provides 
some specific benefits aside from not having to 'M-x package-install'.

Regarding discoverability, I would argue that having a package show up 
in 'M-x list-packages' might do more for it than having it somewhere 
inside Emacs distribution, but disabled by default.