Merging bookmark+ features into Emacs itself

[Stefan Kangas]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> >> like Raman said, bookmark.el could use some love,
>> >> and this could be the chance.
>> >
>> > Frankly, I hope not.
>> >
>> > <opinion>
>> >
>> > [ I don't encourage messing more with bookmark.el,
>> >   as Bookmark+ extends/enhances it, and experience
>> >   shows that vanilla changes to improve something
>> >   like this just wreaks havoc with libraries that
>> >   build upon it.
>> >
>> >   The less people mess with bookmark.el, the
>> >   better for Bookmark+ maintenance.
>> >   If something in Bookmark+ can help, it could be
>> >   used by bookmark.el.  But again, experience
>> >   shows that the adoption of ideas from 3rd-party
>> >   code also ends up making things worse for that
>> >   3rd-party code.  Unless the code itself is taken
>> >   more or less as is, instead of changed to fit
>> >   someone's idea of even "better", things are made
>> >   worse. ]
>> >
>> > </opinion>
>>
>> I don't think we can really slow down the development of Emacs.
>
> No, of course not.  Just expressing an opinion.
>
>> you should start working on
>> merging bookmark+.el features into Emacs itself.
>
> Tried that.

Where can I find those attempts?  Why did your attempts fail?

Are you willing to try again?

> (At one point Stefan even said that Bookmark+ should replace
> bookmark.el.)

I can't really comment on that idea, as I haven't thought about it.

I'm not ruling it out a priori or anything like that, but my thinking
was that merging it one feature at a time would make it easier to review
the new features, ensure they are integrated properly, update the
documentation, and so on.

Copying Stefan Monnier in case he has anything to add.