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: Sun, 22 May 2022 19:01:59 -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> <875ylzkwlp.fsf@bernoul.li> 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="24286"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, luangruo@yahoo.com, larsi@gnus.org, adam@alphapapa.net, philipk@posteo.net, mardani29@yahoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 23 01:03:16 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 1nsubU-00066q-OC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 01:03:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37324 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nsubT-0000WO-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 May 2022 19:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nsuaH-00085m-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 May 2022 19:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nsuaG-0003Rv-C1; Sun, 22 May 2022 19:02:00 -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=pJS6CtZks8XTeDSyixI+iQgOIIihcsFLksbJzEntkWg=; b=hFyfwNz9DUZQ H6okMwWBg0vwrU5/FoRCSPIjUpfw52ayIDZc/UCyQeF7cGm+Z+16mCkIuUU4oIbUN3nklBEXR8rGg iXHI0Azz/yni/LcXu2qJ5q1WzQWbifWfdR5x8wNaIYqa1k2xx4bydIYuKHJx+uJyIRgSu4/nRSvcP OyV1ju12syUnKSwTkuL7cXoBBIOdCObES+EAYB5dLQfQAJUxeOS4Ro0WUi0ffFZU6NMk5VeiJ9D20 qSTs35cgDU4nM8NaTXNZ5LyhvWItxU3Cab1mc8AkoI80H69Ei+drwLoNBE2d7J9fwFQN9cWRYrZcu 3Rfhuccmvy0vzMsghvoKjg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nsuaF-0001ur-T2; Sun, 22 May 2022 19:01:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <875ylzkwlp.fsf@bernoul.li> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Sat, 21 May 2022 12:29:06 +0200) 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:290109 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. ]]] > Using cute names for unproven third-party packages also has the > advantage that the boring authorities name is still available when the > Emacs developers decide to implement "official" support for the same > thing. It is always possible that the unproven third-party package will develop into a success. If we adopt a policy of encouraging unclear names at that stage, we need to make it clear at that time that we could rename it later if we wish to. However, that should not imply _we_ will rewrite the code at that time. Basically, that's more work than we can do. We need to guide the developer to make the code clear. -- 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)