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 00:20:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <15c3cc00-f56e-6e52-2228-30817639315a@gmail.com> <87v9cwek4u.fsf_-_@alphapapa.net> <874kkfgkob.fsf@posteo.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="25909"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Philip K." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 22 06:20:37 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 1kra69-0006dj-EM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 06:20:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43038 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra68-0008NX-Er for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:20:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38854) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra5d-0007vM-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra5c-0002rl-Vk; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:20:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kra5b-00053Z-NR; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:20:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874kkfgkob.fsf@posteo.net> (philipk@posteo.net) 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:261462 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 think the main issue is that url.el can often be rather slow, > sometimes taking half a minute or more to complete a request that would > take curl or other libraries a blink of an eye. > If curl or whatever other method could be used to accelerate url.el, a > lot of application in Emacs would become more feasible to use, without > having to rewrite anything. I see. No problem in making that faster. > Request.el is another story, and I can't comment on that. It's probably > just like with dash/s/f/... where non-elisp developers dislike the > built-in API, but I'm just guessing. >From what people have said here, it sounds unproblematical. But could you explain what you mean by comparing it with dash/s/f/? Would someone please tell me what names the entry points of request.el have? -- 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)