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: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:27:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.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 1499452650 1139 195.159.176.226 (7 Jul 2017 18:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 18:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 07 20:37:26 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 1dTY83-0008PL-25 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:37:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTY88-0007Hq-2Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXyK-0007ud-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXyK-0004bL-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXyD-0004W2-IU; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXyC-0004dq-NX; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:27:12 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 7 Jul 2017 02:01:55 +0300) 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:216284 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. ]]] > Even if we launch a successful GNU project that competes with Magit, > *and* manage to more or less cover its feature set, it is highly > unlikely to eclipse Magit by popularity. Maybe so. But it doesn't need to do everything Magit does. It only needs to be good enough to make git easy to use in Emacs. People will continue > recommending Magit. Maybe so. But if Emacs contains something that is at least adequate, most users will find it from the manual and other Emacs distro contents. > Instead, we should work toward getting Magit into ELPA, I am all in favor of that. That is the best possible outcome. However, developing something else should be plan B if we can't or don't achieve that. -- 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.