From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PL support Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 23:21:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <83zhaih0oz.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbegsvm.fsf@gnu.org> <83imh5hby1.fsf@gnu.org> <2e4e8ce9-d857-f3e3-31cf-a40dee67bd25@yandex.ru> <83y2q1dsvh.fsf@gnu.org> <2468efa6-7dbd-8634-44cc-586bb6985f49@yandex.ru> <83pnbddrfd.fsf@gnu.org> <83k11ldpxs.fsf@gnu.org> <83imh5dnun.fsf@gnu.org> <2c09354e7994f0e61271ab0078256a9dc4202171.camel@k-7.ch> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="109445"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, seb@k-7.ch, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 12 05:23:29 2020 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 1jYLVw-000SOM-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 05:23:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58292 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLVv-0008Ee-TY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:23:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLU2-0005AV-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58551) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLU0-0005Wr-TO; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:21:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLTw-00056H-3S; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:21:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 10 May 2020 23:56:08 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:249932 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. ]]] > > Some contributors are eagerly planning a sort of automatic facility to > > "install external tools." I'm disappointed to have to say that this > > raises problems at various levels. I doubt there is an acceptable way > > to do it. > There is no doubt that acceptable ways to do it exist. My doubts remain. > As a matter of fact, we *already* do that, typically in the form of > instructions in `Commentary:`, `INSTALL`, manuals, messages in > mailing-lists, etc... Those are suggestions, not automatic, but they may indeed raise problems. I hope we have checked all the suggestions in the Emacs distribution. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)