Re: dictionary.el could be included in main stream Emacs - Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Torsten Hilbrich]

On 02.10.20 13:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thorsten, I see you already have copyright assignment on file for
> Emacs, and AFAICT contributions by others are very small and don't
> require assignments.  So we are fine from the legal paperwork POV.
> 
> The next question would be how would you prefer to go about the
> inclusion?  There are several alternatives; the most convenient for us
> would be to move the dictionary.el development into the Emacs Git
> repository.  Would that be okay with you (we will give you write
> access to the Emacs Git in this case, of course)?
> 
> If this is not acceptable, we can discuss other options.

The inclusion into the Emacs Git Repository works fine for me.

> Also, I think we will want to make some changes in the package.  One
> is to require 'cl-lib', not 'cl' (the latter causes a warning in
> recent versions of Emacs).  Another change was discussed here
> recently: to add a feature that at first invocation detects whether a
> local DICT server is available, and use that, falling back to a remote
> server.  This could be triggered by a special value of the
> dictionary-server defcustom, for example, in which case we would want
> to make that special value the default.
> 
> TIA (and thanks for developing this package over the years).

These changes sound okay.

        Torsten