Bug#639221: replace folding.el with elpa-folding

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:10:22PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
>> 
>> Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On 25 June 2018 at 11:50, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> control: tag -1 moreinfo
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>> >> Can you confirm that this old bug is present in
>> >>
>> >>     https://github.com/jaalto/project-emacs--folding-mode/
>> >> blob/master/folding.el
>> >
>> >
>> > ​No, I can't reproduce it. Thanks for looking into this!
>> >
>> 
>> Great, thanks. I'll propose we replace folding.el with a seperate
>> package that tracks that repo.
>
> Given that whatever we do will require a new source package in the
> archive, maybe it would be a good time to consider alternative folding
> addons?  Jaalto's project of course wins for backwards-compatibility ;-)

Let's not bring new complications into an already complicated
project. If the same package looks viable upstream let's package that;
it it doesn't, let's not delay things for finding/packaging
alternatives.  Chances are the users are in a much better position to
nominate a replacement package.

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