From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: plz -> curl? Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 10:22:10 -0500 Message-ID: <87r14sfal9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874k1vzyom.fsf@posteo.net> <104ffa6b-12ae-53df-e289-aba7d7200654@alphapapa.net> <87o7zxnfsg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87pmkcmv2t.fsf@gnus.org> <87wnekmpsb.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34136"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:N5YGobMiiPMcycjMeGqpzE4KKZ0= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 17 17:25:45 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nqz4z-0008l2-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 17:25:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40806 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nqz4y-000164-0h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 11:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nqz1k-0004IJ-F4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 11:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nqz1h-0000SC-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 11:22:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nqz1e-0003Wx-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 17:22:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:289853 Archived-At: On Tue, May 17 2022, Stefan Monnier wrote: > It's always easy to retrospectively decide which package should have > which name (after the dust has settled and one of the contenders for a > given name has accrued a decisive advantage), but backward > compatibility as well as the need to choose a name before the dust has > settled (which can take a very long time) mean that non-obvious names > are here to stay. By now for some years I have been the maintainer of the Insidious Big Brother Database (aka BBDB). But before that I was rather clueless what it was doing and how it could possibly be useful at all. The term "Insidious Big Brother Database (aka BBDB)" did not help me much. Sad enough, overhauling the documentation of BBDB that could help newcomers is one of the biggest pieces that are still missing.