Re: Include which-key.el in the Emacs distribution

[Stephen Leake]

Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 11:59 AM Stephen Leake
> <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
>>
>> Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:
>>
>> > Hi all.  Having `which-key' available in core remains popular, at least on 
>> > IRC.
>> >
>> > Now that it is available from GNU Elpa I wonder what is left to do and
>> > if there appears hope of including it with Emacs 29.
>> >
>> > Does anyone "here" have thoughts on how this may be coming along/what
>> > else is needed?
>>
>> I started on a branch to implement bundling elpa packages in the emacs
>> release; see feature/bundle-elpa, file admin/notes/elpa, and this email
>> thread on emacs-devel:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-01/msg01017.html
>
> Does solving this block the possibility to include which-key, in your
> view?

The goal is to have a mechanism to easily include any ELPA package with
the Emacs release. The above is one approach to that.

> I know, at least, ERC is maintained via GNU ELPA but bundled in each
> Emacs release.  Would it make sense to look into how that's being
> done, perhaps as an interim step?

That's easy; there is a lisp/erc directory in the master emacs git
repository. Apparently someone syncs the code between there and ELPA.
There are several other packages that use that approach; which-key could
as well.

There are also "core" ELPA packages; the code resides in the emacs
master repository, but the ELPA server also packages it. I think the
only examples of those are single-file, but it should work for
multi-file as well.

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-- Stephe