Re: "Write a new package" culture instead of patches?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 19:43:54 +0000
> From: ndame <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> >
> > But MELPA asks you to jump through a different set of hoops, which
> > seems to fly in the face of your theory.
> 
> You mean setting up MELPA access?

No, I mean the MELPA contribution requirements.  I'm talking about
those who provide packages, not those who use them.  Using packages
from ELPA doesn't require any jumps.

> So Emacs/ELPA should provide a good use case which MELPA can't provide. The 
> only thing I know is if there is no internet connection then packages are 
> available locally, but I don't know how typical that is.

No, the use case is that ELPA has higher quality code that never
promotes or uses proprietary software.