Subject: Re: bug#24197: Removing lisp/play from standard Emacs package

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:07:12 +0300

> From: Otso Rajala <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:43:13 +0300
> 
> Solution:
> 1) Make these toys in lisp/play optionally available from
> elpa.gnu.org/packages, but do not ship them by default within
> Emacs.
> 
> Advantage of solution:
> 1) All problems go away
> 2) Simple lisp game sources now easily accessible right from common browser
> for fun & inspiration without having to download 56M tar.gz editor with them.
> 3) Fair towards other toys, considering sokoban and wpuzzle are there but don't
> ship by default.

Disadvantage: you lose me as Emacs developer, because Emacs without
Tetris and Psychotherapist is not worth its bits for me.