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: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:51:16 -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="35466"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, philipk@posteo.net, aka.tkf@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 06:54:16 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 1ksJZo-000979-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 06:54:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55520 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJZn-0007uN-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJWw-0004vQ-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:51:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35949) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJWv-0004ZM-KJ; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJWu-00044b-FY; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:51:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:27:41 +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:261660 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 wouldn't think so. It models an asychronous framework for network > requests. That is very abstract -- concretely what does it mean? > > But maybe it could be added very simply to url.el. > Sure, you could do own wrapper, Why do you say "wrapper"? I don't know what you mean, but I have a feeling we are miscommunicating. but the man already modelled one, why > not just use it? What do you mean by "modelled"? I have never used url.el, so I am making some surmises. I could be mistaken. But I can't tell from what you've said whether I was mistaken. -- 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)