[COMMIT] Import Edward O'Connor's json.el

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Aidan Kehoe writes:

 >  Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 
 > 
 >  > VETO
 >  >  
 >  > Get this OUT of net-utils!
 > 
 > No!  If dns.el, shadowfile.el, xml.el and mozmail.el all fit
 > comfortably in net-utils, which they do, this should too.

xml.el is, as I already admitted, a precedent.  It is also in the
wrong place; a precedent that should be reversed when possible.  You
haven't responded to that argument, and I've waited more than two
weeks for a response; therefore, it stands.

dns.el, shadowfile.el, and mozmail.el are all utilities intended to
facilitate certain kinds of communication over the network.  json.el,
like xml.el, is an editor package providing an editor mode for a
certain language (which happens to be associated with the WWW).  The
former, not the latter, is what net-utils is for.  Since you've made
no argument at all that json.el belongs in net-utils, I'm not willing
to retract my veto.

This is not the kind of decision that's easy to reverse without ill
effects on users (eg, inadvertant shadows), so I've executed the veto:
json.el has been removed from net-utils in CVS.  If you want that
reversed, feel free to collect the additional two reviewer votes you
need to override a veto.  I'll be happy to do the CVS manipulations if
you can get them.

As for json.el, it is clearly a valuable addition to the packages.  I
think it deserves having a little thought devoted to where it belongs,
and if necessary an appropriate place created for it.  We should move
xml.el there, too.