"J.P." writes: > Adam Porter writes: > >> On 11/9/22 23:28, J.P. wrote: >> >>> Akib Azmain Turja writes: >> >>>> But Adam Porter (CC'ing), the maintainer of ement.el (available on GNU >>>> ELPA), a Matrix client, claims that auth-source is from the dark side[1] >>>> and refused to support it claiming it's not suitable for general use[2]. >> >> Please note: I did not expect to be mentioned in this way here. It's not my >> intention to speak poorly of others' software, especially in public. In the >> Reddit post I made, I tried to be objective and show the problems clearly with >> code examples. > > That's certainly the impression I got, and I regret not having said as > much sooner. Sorry you had to burn cycles on a dignified defense. At the > same time, I'm hopeful folks will find the restraint to chalk this up to > a teachable moment and attribute Akib's bit of ambush editorializing > (something I myself have been guilty of over the years) to the angst of > youth or a moment of weakness, both potential engines of productivity > when channeled in a more positive direction. I'm extremely sorry, I didn't actually wanted to give that impression. Please forgive me. > >> And that is merely my opinion, of course, based on the shortcomings I noted >> (e.g. the lack of API to update a secret, the undocumented error-handling >> signals, etc). I expect that, were I to use it in my software, I would end up >> working around these problems and answering users' support questions about >> them; and since I don't use it myself, either, it doesn't seem like a good >> idea to do so. >> >> Nevertheless, it's clearly used by a number of people and third-party packages >> that integrate with it, so take my opinion of it with a grain of salt. If it >> seems useful to you, by all means, use it. Your works are awesome, thank you much for the work. > > Thanks for your work on Emacs. -- Akib Azmain Turja, GPG key: 70018CE5819F17A3BBA666AFE74F0EFA922AE7F5 Fediverse: akib@hostux.social Codeberg: akib emailselfdefense.fsf.org | "Nothing can be secure without encryption."