Bundle XEmacs package distro for GNU Emacs?

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Rodney Sparapani writes:
>
>  > Wow!  This is fantastic.  They seem to work perfectly.  Has there been
>  > any thought of making a distro for Emacs?
>
> Well, in one sense there already two: the CVS "packages" module, and
> the sumo tarballs + "find /path/to/packages -name '*.elc' -exec rm \{\}".
>
> It is up to individual maintainers whether they accept bug reports
> from GNU Emacs users.  I would encourage that, but I see no reason why
> we should do anything more.  That is, I predict it will not be
> appreciated, let alone reciprocated, by GNU Emacs.[1]
>
> David, what do you think?

I haven't followed the discussion, I am afraid.  The general line of
policy for Emacs development is to fold important packages into the core
distribution and don't spend resources on external packages or their
management.  That's not because external packages are to be discouraged,
but simply because there just are no resources from Emacs contributors
to reroute.

Stefan Monnier wrote an installer for external packages (something which
Richard Stallman commented on with something like "if that is what a
package system is supposed to be like, I might be persuaded to use one"
at one time).  He might be a better person to ask about whatever this is
about.

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