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 23:26:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pn32ezyo.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="27963"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Philip K." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 05:27:25 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 1krvkB-00079e-Vj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:27:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42592 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvkB-0003jx-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvj8-0002yd-Ox for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:26:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvj6-0004XK-65; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1krvj5-0003gz-9m; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:26:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pn32ezyo.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:261559 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. ]]] > > Do you think Emacs could use some C library like gnurl or something > > else that could accelerate Emacs's network requests? I think it is quite undesirable to link more facilities into Emacs. If fork and exec of a program like curl are adequate, we should do it that way, for simplicity. -- 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)