Re: [elpa] externals/pyim 1e14e7c: V3.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:41:07 +0800 (CST)
> From: tumashu  <tumashu@163.com>
> Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 
>       "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> >> for the emacs-async reason, maybe pyim can not move to emacs.git,
> >> maybe Gnu elpa is better place.
> >
> >I guess so.  Too bad.
> 
> maybe we should wait a sync package into emacs.git :-)

I think there was talk about doing that.  I don't know what is the
status of that.  John, any comments?

> >> >And I think the dependency on MELPA is the most worrisome, as we try
> >> >not to encourage users to install packages from there, let alone force
> >> >them do it.
> >
> >This part is a problem even if pyim is only on ELPA.
> 
> This is not a big issue, without a Melpa package "pyim-basedict",  pyim can 
> work properly,
> pyim-basedict just let pyim more powful. 
> 
> as for pyim-basedict, it deriver from  libpinyin, libpinyin license is Apache 
> 2.0
> 
> I do not know hao to deal with it,   put pyim-basedict to NonGNU elpa ?

Yes, having that in non-GNU ELPA would be a good step.