Re: Adding major or popular language modes to Emacs distribution

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:34:46 +0000
> Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>, "hi@ypei.me" <hi@ypei.me>,
>  Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>,
>  "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> On this spirit, should we try to bundle in some more “IDE” like
> features/packages rather than just file modes?

In general, yes.  We imported parts of CEDET for that, although that
didn't (yet) get us a decent IDE.

> I could speak for SLIME or SLY, which is practically used by every
> Common Lisp programmers (practically everyone of them use Emacs).
> They’re both licensed under Public Domain.

Not sure what you are proposing.  If their developers would like to
suggest those packages for inclusion in Emacs and to be developed as
part of Emacs, we could consider that.  But they need to want to do
that, we cannot take over those packages, or at least that would be
undesirable, if not improper.