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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:261677 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. ]]] > > > > Does request.el indeed duplicate built-in functionality? > > I wouldn't think so. It models an asychronous framework for network > > requests. > > That is very abstract -- concretely what does it mean? It gives a little API to do http requests, and it can switch between curl and built-in url as backends. I thought it was already done, so easy to use when profiling. I thought it would be useful, so I just pointed to it, I didn't thought it would cause so much discussion. > > > But maybe it could be added very simply to url.el. > > > Sure, you could do own wrapper, > > Why do you say "wrapper"? I don't know what you mean, An abstraction on top of both, as he did. > but I have a feeling we are miscommunicating. Maybe, easy on the internet. I am not always the best to communicate with either. Sorry, probably my fault. > but the man already modelled one, why > > not just use it? > > What do you mean by "modelled"? Architect, designed, created .... it was just a word.