Re: PL support

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.05.2020 21:47, João Távora wrote:

> > That doesn't sound too bad. Bonus points if the same hooks could be
> > universal for the LSP protocol, i.e. if lsp-mode could conceivably use
> > them too.
>
> The thing is, you haven't exactly explained why Eglot in core sounds
> bad, either.  You say Eglot in GNU Elpa is decent already and I agree.

Imagine taking the whole of MELPA and putting it inside the Emacs 
repository. Why would it be a bad idea? Lots of different codebases 
developed by different people with different responsibilities.

Our bug tracker and development workflow has no solutions to this 
problem: everybody has to read every bug report and every commit message.

> But having it in core would bring some advantages, particularly for
> me, I admit.  Having to jump back and forth between xref.el, project.el,
> eldoc.el, flymake.el, jsonrpc.el and eglot.el in different repos is not
> much fun.

These are just two repositories between these packages.

Making concerted changes could become easier sometimes, but it would 
also become easier to break backward compatibility. All of these 
packages don't serve Eglot only, and making a change in Emacs separately 
is a good reminder of that separation.