From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 08:41:52 +0000 Message-ID: <87r19xktnz.fsf@posteo.net> References: <87v8zbp5l7.fsf@posteo.net> <87ee5ymhsz.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7214"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 28 09:43:55 2021 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 1n285K-0001fJ-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:43:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49674 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n285J-0004oQ-Dp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 03:43:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n283Y-0003yx-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 03:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:49725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n283S-000122-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 03:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C4FBA240026 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:41:54 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1640680914; bh=1tMcjYYHdLBx7EL9AQDHkhEshZtSEpmEkC+47ElvLj8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Autocrypt:Date:From; b=dKUfolKjmnUbqqkiU5sODjZbyNPUEatCqIZE5CvHvGgM6jFssqbdsE2roH1nWy8vD J0DzJMZPgrKxxaBPiEVl/Xa/T2ouHfpTiDRAHrQK7mhKjrB6i2HZBHH/teH0ucHpFK ZuDVgniwDW13Owv/qCff0Ke43UyewNRoqWJh5CjDBtsY7xWhCpobdqz0TWVnLzUO9i u62sp2ebctJ17GTmBWnzmc9yV0EmGWYrOPCWLAr/yNICyvh6VAooa1XPlfv3/fYKHU Amju1/wtwMdaVCUi/Kep/emTCEPGhrVwPHK2+a878IAvWECsGPUkgHJWdw6agjU0Mw vk+sPpvIxFOig== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4JNSh21C7Rz6tpV; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:41:54 +0100 (CET) Autocrypt: addr=philipk@posteo.net; prefer-encrypt=nopreference; keydata= mDMEYHHqUhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAp3GdmYJ6tm5McweY6dEvIYIiry+Oz9rU4MH6NHWK0Ee0QlBo aWxpcCBLYWx1ZGVyY2ljIChnZW5lcmF0ZWQgYnkgYXV0b2NyeXB0LmVsKSA8cGhpbGlwa0Bwb3N0 ZW8ubmV0PoiQBBMWCAA4FiEEDM2H44ZoPt9Ms0eHtVrAHPRh1FwFAmBx6lICGwMFCwkIBwIGFQoJ CAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQtVrAHPRh1FyTkgEAjlbGPxFchvMbxzAES3r8QLuZgCxeAXunM9gh io0ePtUBALVhh9G6wIoZhl0gUCbQpoN/UJHI08Gm1qDob5zDxnIHuDgEYHHqUhIKKwYBBAGXVQEF AQEHQNcRB+MUimTMqoxxMMUERpOR+Q4b1KgncDZkhrO2ql1tAwEIB4h4BBgWCAAgFiEEDM2H44Zo Pt9Ms0eHtVrAHPRh1FwFAmBx6lICGwwACgkQtVrAHPRh1Fw1JwD/Qo7kvtib8jy7puyWrSv0MeTS g8qIxgoRWJE/KKdkCLEA/jb9b9/g8nnX+UcwHf/4VfKsjExlnND3FrBviXUW6NcB In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:21:18 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.65; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout01.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:283493 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > I am imagining a command like `package-fetch'. You could give it a > > package name or a repository URL, and it would clone the contents into > > ~/.emacs.d/elpa/devel. Package.el would treat this as a special kind of > > package (next to "installed", "dependency" and "built-in"), hopefully > > being able to reuse the existing package-loading functionality. > > I see the usefulness of this. > > The first step of it -- operating on a package name, which would very likely > point to a repo site that we condemn, would put us into a moral contradiction. > However, there's no moral problem in the rest of it. > > Would you like to implement `package-fetch' so that it always wants > a URL as argument? Do you mean to say that there is an issue in just cloning a git repository from say GitHub? -- Philip Kaludercic