Re: ELPA policy

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Since xref.el does not need to depend on CEDET, I don't see a reason why it
>> should, causing CEDET to remain in core.
>
> xref is as useful as its backends.  If you take away backends, it
> becomes less useful, or supports less programming languages, or both.

Yes.

That's an argument for making the CEDET xref backend available
somewhere; I've committed to ensuring that.

But this discussion is about ELPA vs Emacs core:

Does it matter whether that backend is in ELPA or Emacs core?

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-- Stephe