Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11.05.2020 05:37, Richard Stallman wrote:

>    > Right. And I'll posit that including s.el into GNU ELPA, by itself, will
>    > not hurt any of these three goals.
>
> It would mess up the naming in GNU Emacs, making two incongruous
> systems.

Not in GNU Emacs, though. In ELPA. I would agree that s.el is, in a 
sense, unnecessary (considered by itself), but there are clear benefits 
to including it as well, as a part of existing ecosystem.

> Those who argue for incorporating s.el are saying
> that we should abandon judging Emacs design decisions, and blindly
> yield to the choices of a group of people that hardly talk with us,
> value other traditions more than those of Emacs and Lisp, and would
> like to paste the others over those two.

This sounds like a strawman. We're not discussing doing that.

There was a separate discussion on improving some of the names of the 
functions in the core, but you effectively put a stop to that endeavor. 
I find that regrettable as well.