Re: "Write a new package" culture instead of patches?

[Stefan Monnier]

Integration is hard.  So yes, people prefer to make new packages, this
way whoever likes it can install it and those who don't like it won't
be affected.

I don't think it's necessarily a problem.  It just means integration has
to be done separately.  Nowadays it's done at various places by
various people.  It's done here on emacs-devel, of course, but it's also
done in all the "Emacs distributions" like Doom, Spacemacs, ...

Having several distributions makes it easier, because the affected users
can go elsewhere when they're not happy, so while emacs-devel is quite
conservative, other distributions can be more daring.


        Stefan