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. Sorry, I didn't want to hurt you, 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. Thanks for the clarification. > > 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. > -- Akib Azmain Turja, GPG key: 70018CE5819F17A3BBA666AFE74F0EFA922AE7F5 Fediverse: akib@hostux.social Codeberg: akib emailselfdefense.fsf.org | "Nothing can be secure without encryption."