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: plz -> curl? Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 18:59:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874k1vzyom.fsf@posteo.net> <104ffa6b-12ae-53df-e289-aba7d7200654@alphapapa.net> <87o7zxnfsg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87pmkcmv2t.fsf@gnus.org> <87wnekmpsb.fsf@yahoo.com> 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="17630"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, larsi@gnus.org, adam@alphapapa.net, philipk@posteo.net, mardani29@yahoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 01:00:40 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 1nr6BD-0004SR-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 May 2022 01:00:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59854 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nr6BB-00088t-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 19:00:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nr69i-00065U-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 18:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44938) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nr69h-0004AT-Pg; Tue, 17 May 2022 18:59:06 -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=q8RkLuiHssK4wqDIUlOVRVlTlyPtdskcYQVH94XUtu4=; b=QCwjaqlMBnv9 Rrsu7ZXcfZk83pHsb5JZhaZhFhQWAKXB2HTAo4sxYf+QWaOxfIm3HTqUA81fPK8QVqfc/beB0V77j yAJ9PGIrK64bG1lYSHLboIWfXU53JUHPNwu0NzilacWlbvVzyqep02zbNC3X5/IpjbMLv7txtXyOB BVZhAG168t4XZPzyVtjQ/DsrLE62ZVzgS7MBIKrcxOrupuf8hEDJTMXD9GM3hzoQkkuIejAjZ2nYV uoBrxmWuo7dK4LJWiS+bF/iggVq8v/zGh/4/BQmT0gN6Lf/ruF+wdajpfWFbrT6s3n7DbmjpaDT+m xQTN7Ohm0tZ2u6Qu3vVWrQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nr69h-00065p-Ho; Tue, 17 May 2022 18:59:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 17 May 2022 08:10:20 -0400) 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:289890 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. ]]] > It's always easy to retrospectively decide which package should have > which name (after the dust has settled and one of the contenders for > a given name has accrued a decisive advantage), but backward > compatibility as well as the need to choose a name before the dust has > settled (which can take a very long time) mean that non-obvious names > are here to stay. We can define a new, clear name and use it to refer to the package by, and keep the old name as an alias. That gets the best of these two worlds. -- 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)