From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: format use inquiry Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7e7f068e4e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498096674 16541 195.159.176.226 (22 Jun 2017 01:57:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 22 03:57:51 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNW-00044s-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:57:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56643 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNc-0006NV-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNT-0006MP-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNS-0005K1-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNP-0005In-3e; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNO-0002Dq-ES; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:42 -0400 In-reply-to: <7e7f068e4e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:53:53 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215872 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > > (format "http%s://elpa.gnu.org/packages/" > > (if (gnutls-available-p) "s" "")) > Yes, it is. But obviously I think that, since I wrote it. I agree it is acceptable, but this looks like something that might be needed in a number of places, so perhaps we should make a nicer interface to do it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.