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 23:26:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87sg7yf73g.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="28354"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 05:27:30 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 1krvkI-0007Ff-6H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:27:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvkH-0003uZ-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:27:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvjM-00033O-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:26:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42393) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvjM-0004dB-5a; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:26:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1krvjC-0003jF-3e; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:26:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:04:48 +0100) 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:261560 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. ]]] Does request.el indeed duplicate built-in functionality? I don't know for certain what it does, but if it is just "try curl, then url.el", that may still be an improvement over what we have now. But maybe it could be added very simply to url.el. -- 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)