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30.0.50; Unbundle Idlwave from Emacs?

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>, 71157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, JD Smith <jdtsmith <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#71157: 30.0.50; Unbundle Idlwave from Emacs?
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 13:36:34 -0400

Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
> text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> 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.

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