From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?] Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:47:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <15c3cc00-f56e-6e52-2228-30817639315a@gmail.com> <87v9cwek4u.fsf_-_@alphapapa.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29042"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adam Porter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 21 06:49:32 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 1krE4a-0007UO-0V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:49:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55150 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krE4Z-0004ma-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:49:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krE32-0003rX-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:47:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60644) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krE32-0006dY-Cj; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:47:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1krE30-0002oY-FO; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:47:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87v9cwek4u.fsf_-_@alphapapa.net> (message from Adam Porter on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 06:29:05 -0600) 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:261372 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. ]]] Would people please tell me what new capabilities you aim to have in this new facility? How would it be better than using url.el or running curl as a subprocess? What jobs do you think of using it for? I'm concerned that it may add a substantial amount of complexity that we could do without. I'm also concerned about how it might deal with Javascript code. -- 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)