Including Evil in GNU ELPA

Fri Jul 11 10:19:16 CEST 2014

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Frank Fischer
<frank-fischer at shadow-soft.de> wrote:
> Am 30.05.2014 17:46, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
>> I remember asking this a few years ago, but somehow I can't seem to find
>> the answer.  So here it is again: I think it would be great to include
>> Evil in the GNU ELPA archive.
>>
>> Would Evil's maintainers be interested in doing so?  If yes, then please
>> get in touch with me, so we can work out the details (which mostly have
>> to do with copyright paperwork, since we have the same policy for GNU
>> ELPA as for Emacs, to make it easy to move code between the two).

> Well, I do not know of Vegard (I have not heard from him for some time
> now, but he contributed most parts of Evil), but for me it's ok.
> However, I do not really know anything about that legal stuff (neither
> what has to be done nor what its legal consequences are). And I do not
> know if all contributors agree, of course.

I don’t know whether my minor contribution of the initial code for
evil-digraph.el would make me a contributor, but I’m all for it.  I’d
gladly complete the paperwork, should it be necessary.

> Furthermore, I suppose that most people use the git version of Evil (via
> melpa), so I'm not sure how important a GNU ELPA package would be. But
> if there is some interest in providing one I'm willing to do so.

I would appreciate a stable version in ELPA.