Bastien Guerry <b...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi Philip, > > phillip.l...@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > >> I presume you do see this as an advantage? The issue is, surely, >> that it's too much of a PITA for the advantage that you gain? > > Well, it's not really about PITA-or-not-PITA, it's just that I want > org-mode to be the default mode for some files in Emacs, and having > org-mode in Emacs' core is the most simple way to go for this. > > Maintainers of projects like Gnus or CEDET don't want their code to > live outside of Emacs repo neither, so I guess simplicity is a big > win.
Yes, it would appear that way. But, at the moment, to be distributed with Emacs you have to be in the emacs repo. We've discussed this before, I know, but these two things are not an absolute necessity. Having the Emacs build populate it's source tree with packages is also possible. Phil