Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.05.2020 18:52, João Távora wrote:

> > I'm not sure for what purposes, but hooks are flexible enough for this
> > to be possible today already (without Eglot in the core).
>
> Yes, that works.  But Eglot doesn't have only these kinds of interfaces.  It
> also has generic functions.  I guess we could have just a "lsp-interface.el"
> in the core that defines the generic functions and no implementations.

I suppose so. Though I'd like to look at its contents. So far I don't 
have any solid idea what this file would contain.

> > More generally, I oppose collecting more and more code inside Emacs.
> > Lots of features can live just as well as packages.
>
> That's true.  Some things are desirable in the core though.  In my view
> a proper completion tooltip that lives in the core and uses capf
> exclusively is a nice thing to have.  I don't want to M-x package-install
> completion-thingy.

One project that aimed to solve this was bundling a set of ELPA packages 
together in the Emacs distribution, while they generally continue to 
reside in ELPA. I agree that having a completion tooltip in there could 
be a good improvement.

A bit less sure about Eglot TBH (or any LSP client), because Emacs has a 
long history of alternative solutions in this field, and it would be 
best not to step on their toes either. So this will be a question of how 
to do this most unobtrusively but still help.

> > But even the usual argument to have stuff in the core ("what if I don't
> > have Internet?") doesn't work for Eglot, considering it needs to
> > download external programs anyway (or have the user download them).
>
> True, to a point.  But the user could have those programs already,
> or use Eglot to connect through the network. But that argument sucks,
> I agree.  I do think once something is in the core it's more
> discoverable/taken more seriously.  At least until we start bundling
> packages.

I guess my opinion is that merging Eglot in won't help much, and there 
are other, smaller things we should start doing first. When we're do 
with them, maybe bundling is already on the table.