Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit

[Stefan Monnier]

> Could we please start with adding those packages to Elpa?

Sounds pretty good.  We usually welcome new packages into GNU ELPA, so
of course libraries that are in actual use by important packages even
more so.

I know nothing about those libraries, but I'd be happy to help bring
them into GNU ELPA.

> I think experimentation and innovation happens primarily outside of
> Emacs core.  I am under the impression, that once a package is part
> of Emacs, its basic structure is set in stone.

"Backward compatibility" tends to impose  restrictions, indeed.  Less so
for end-user facing functionality than for functionality exported as an
Elisp library, but yes.

Note that this doesn't apply to GNU ELPA packages which can break
backward compatibility all they want.


        Stefan