Subject: Re: bug#71157: 30.0.50; Unbundle Idlwave from Emacs?

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 22:41:12 -0700

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
>> text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> Package: Emacs
>>> Version: 30.0.50
>>>
>>>
>>> Idlwave has been bundled with Emacs "forever" but that code has been
>>> unmaintained for many years.  There was another version over on Github.
>>> The two have now been consolidated and made available via GNU ELPA
>>> (http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/idlwave.html).
>>>
>>> AFAICT this is a package with a very small audience, so I suggest we
>>> unbundle it from Emacs, leaving it up to users to install it from GNU
>>> ELPA instead.
>>>
>>> Maybe we could move it to `lisp/obsolete` for Emacs-30?
>>
>> SGTM.
>
> +1

I suppose we missed the train for Emacs 30, but how about doing this on
master now?