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: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:17:47 -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="16985"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 22 06:18:32 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 1kra48-0004J0-OE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 06:18:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40884 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra47-0007PN-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:18:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra3R-00070n-Mm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra3R-0001m6-AA; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kra3P-0004g8-Ea; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:17:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:17:45 -0500) 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:261461 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. ]]] > > 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. > AFAIK Javascript has not yet crept into HTTP, so this is not an issue. Javascript is potentially an issue. HTTP typically transfers HTML, and where HTML goes, Javascript tends to go with it. So this program may cause pressure to support Javascript in some way. Or it may not. But we need to look a few steps down this road before setting out on it. -- 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)