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 23:41:28 -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="9974"; 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 Fri Dec 25 05:42:48 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 1ksewC-0002U1-HB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2020 05:42:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47746 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksewB-0001Je-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 23:42:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35528) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kseuy-0000NU-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 23:41:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kseux-0005at-S4; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 23:41:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kseuu-0003Il-F7; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 23:41:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:59:16 +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:261712 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. ]]] Instead of a new layer above url.el, how about a small change _inside_ url.el to optionally use curl instead? Adding layers tends to make code bigger and slower, so we shouldn't make that our go-to approach by default. Sometimes the new layer is worth the cost, but we should compare with other approaches. -- 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)