Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[xenodasein]

Dec 25, 2021, 23:18 by philipk@posteo.net:

> xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> writes:
>
>> Dec 25, 2021, 22:03 by eliz@gnu.org:
>>
>>> I don't think I understand what you are saying, but the changes
>>> proposed there were installed 6 months later.
>>>
>>
>> What I meant was that straight.el should have been a part of Emacs,
>> in some form, as an improvement of package.el infrastructure.
>>
>> Instead, the actual change contributed was primarily a way to disable
>> package.el.
>>
>
> Do you mean that package.el should be extended by straight.el-like
> functionality, or that straight.el (or a substitute) should be added to
> Emacs?
>
> -- 
>  Philip Kaludercic
>

The effort spent on it should have both improved existing package.el
and also add straight.el like functionality to it.  Whether it is all under
feature 'package or multiple features.