Re: [ELPA] New package: Ement (Matrix client)

[Payas Relekar]

Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> Payas Relekar [2022-09-02 20:23:38] wrote:
>>> Just a thought.  Since we already have IRC client in the core, it will be
>>> nice to have a well-maintained Matrix client in core as well.
>>> Any chance of that happening?  Thoughts?
>>
>> I think adding packages to core Emacs is usually a bad idea unless it's
>> a package contributing to the general infrastracture of ELisp (or if
>> it's a package that's important for some ELisp package that's already in
>> core).
>
> Fair.
>
>> I think the plan/intention is rather to move things out of core.
>> To make up for it, the intention is then to provide a new mechanism to
>> "bundle" some GNU ELPA packages into the "default" build of Emacs.
>
> Well, assuming that happens, can Ement be considered for default
> bundling?

I realised this phrasing is bit presumptuous and not very answerable.

Please ignore if thats how it comes off :)

>
> Tangential, but I'm assuming you mean something in between current 
> org/modus-themes
> development model where upstream is periodically merged to core and
> ELPA, but just to clarify, is that what you mean, or a built-in way to
> generate custom Emacs 'distribution' of sorts, or something else?

Thanks,
Payas

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