Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA

[Stefan Kangas]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> I don’t have any problem of adding it to core. I’m just pessimistic
> about how many people are incentivized to push for it and agree on
> things.

I am incentivized to both push for and agree on things.  ;-)

More seriously, you already had Eli agree that this does belong in core,
so I think the process should be rather smooth sailing, especially if we
try to make the first step as uncontroversial as possible.

> Putting it on ELPA doesn’t stop from working it into core, I think. I
> don’t want to get into another 1000-thread debate about what is the
> “minimal set”. Many of the stuff in setup-wizard.el are not easily
> agreed upon, but removing them IMO decreases the usefulness of
> setup-wizard.

How about putting the uncontroversial part in core, and creating a more
opinionated/useful add-on to put in GNU ELPA?  Then you can do basically
whatever you think is best in your add-on, while all new users still
benefit from the less opinionated/useful part that we put in core.

I am also not eager to get into a 1000-thread debate, but here are my
observations on the points you bring up:

> For example, the “wizards’ choice” binding scheme,

Could you expand on what this means?

> the option to turn off menu-bar,

I have no opinion on whether or not this should be part of an initial
setup wizard.

> the recommendation of ivy and company.

These sound good to me.  Does the wizard also help install the packages,
and say clearly that this is about to happen?