Re: [elpa] New package: vc-got

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31.08.2021 16:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: op@omarpolo.com, timo.myyra@bittivirhe.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:46:05 +0300
> >
> > On 31.08.2021 16:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > So you are saying it doesn't have a place even on ELPA?
> >
> > Sure it has: the ELPA packages don't have to be 100% practical.
>
> Really?  I'm surprised.

Surely even you can agree that criteria for ELPA and core shouldn't be 
the same.

> > If people want to use got, they might enjoy a dedicated VC backend for it.
>
> So I'm asking if, for the same reason, it could make sense to have it
> in core.

Aside from "why not?" not being a good reason, since 
2697123933e3ac7ed4e21a6d12746a98ed7fa74a vc-responsible-backend iterates 
through all enabled backends when choosing the "current" one. So the 
longer we make the list of built-in backends, the more overhead we get 
on this.