Re: adding packages to Emacs

[Sam Steingold]

> * In message <address@hidden>
> * On the subject of "Re: adding packages to Emacs "
> * Sent on Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:59:01 -0500
> * Honorable "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > > While we are at it (adding calc and gnuserv to Emacs), why not add elib?
> > > Did you have a particular need/use in mind ?
> > no - I was thinking of JDE.
> > 
> > I found it strange that an ELisp package is distributed from the
> > Emacs directory.  How is this package different from all the other
> > ELisp packages?  I think the interesting parts should be extracted
> > and integrated into Emacs,
> That makes sense.  Do you know which parta are used by JDE ?

nope.

> > and the package itself should be dropped from the emacs
> > distribution site.
> 
> It can still be useful for people who want to install JDE but not
> Emacs-21.X

The JDE people should take care of that.

many packages floated around until they were finally integrated into
Emacs.  we did not keep distributing stand-alone versions after they
were integrated, right?


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