Recent go-mode.el requires find-file.el - views on adding it to the package tree?

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:58:34 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mats Lidell writes:

 > However there is a small but. It has now a dependency on a file
 > find-file.el which we don't have.

 >  - Any views or comments on adding this file to the edit-utils?

+1

 >  - The easiest thing would be to just take the current version, which
 >    is GPLV3 or later, and use that.

Not a problem, I think.  If RMS decides to complain, we can decide
what to do then.

 >  - Just byte compiling the file reveals only warnings about
 >    purecopy. We seem to keep calls to purcopy in other files so I
 >    suppose that is how we should do it now also?

If you don't see any reason to improve the code and maintain those
improvements, yes.  There's no point in making work for a maintainer
if we can simply patch up.