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: [ELPA] New package: plz Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 19:58:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874k1vzyom.fsf@posteo.net> <104ffa6b-12ae-53df-e289-aba7d7200654@alphapapa.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="16967"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, mardani29@yahoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adam Porter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 15 01:59:00 2022 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 1nq1f2-0004Es-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 15 May 2022 01:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nq1f1-00076f-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 May 2022 19:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40148) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nq1eQ-0006Qs-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 May 2022 19:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37416) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nq1eO-0007Oo-SK; Sat, 14 May 2022 19:58:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=WOJOEbIi9I/5hWh+AQYK/MAOeI+dREwJJUDmc+XDhDo=; b=WUxHg3OxCyE0 LrUaJzYRdk2zv75MihpwG6cFLuB9s5PAOgukDWcdKiBVgzV2qkpGEJ2siBHCdnDagviK6oNIt+WNp xpENAOcwieVF/hk8KbmZyG+6KwHndSemi3to0c/wtklZ5fa4zuj35hRE0QRaAGcA14f9hCYrY51oc iwmEXmaKq3AtZ0aUaKn+89CGW1YwbdIc8yL5HqRODd4KqNYv0dTcQFTxjtPZq2YVYo3rTFBqYdQXD YAYX5KySFFKH1b3v5BhE0lZVaD7CAviYU1wxifOvvImM5R5FIqRvGOPz6ai0KKWqew0IQhDyp8cq4 6ZRGgfev0vFbvtBaXsVgDw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nq1eN-0001o5-Vf; Sat, 14 May 2022 19:58:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <104ffa6b-12ae-53df-e289-aba7d7200654@alphapapa.net> (message from Adam Porter on Wed, 11 May 2022 14:29:22 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:289787 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. ]]] > And I think it doesn't matter here: if someone wonders what plz.el does, > they can "C-h P plz RET" and find out. And if someone is looking for an > HTTP library, they can "M-x list-packages RET / d http RET" and find some. That is true -- but that only goes one way, from thinking about the name "plz" to trying to use it. It does not help people go in the other direction, from an idea of doing something to thinking about using this one library. The number of unclear package names in Emacs is a big problem (epa, eww, mml are a few examples out of many). They are neither helpful nor funny, and they make those pakages undiscoverable. Let's not add any more of those. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)