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: Adding the `prescient` packages to NonGNU ELPA? Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:17:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <16193c73-ab80-04c9-558f-d5e6142f38f3@protonmail.com> <871qpydllo.fsf@posteo.net> <87wn7pljl3.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="6837"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stefankangas@gmail.com, okamsn@protonmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 21 22:18:18 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 1oxEBF-0001TO-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:18:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxEAL-0001J9-9B; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:17:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxEAI-0001It-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxEAH-0006jx-If; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:17:17 -0500 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=Z6dKGcRLJr8g7W20SDiL958zAdf2RvRcMHYmHnxIotI=; b=UqWLW6hPOXVB xNXm8bVEVFeeaiLoITZRm5ZwP8eu09RF4MwwVkFpswLiZjzZMMAcmCBmNWwGB9Wk/WlPJbJoXPfm5 rGAZLxuS8xRGKazb1HITwSNDNpfV2VY2TaxVXcnpsnVCY88RFNCgbxTYG200KB0gDlzQav6+0b0aB rdftmoNDxBZFCNSK5DWddWrzTYaWQrFMjMecIF+ydvy0eeoAhmIqRU7dWTishW+/UN9EbJhxjhswv +K0kmn1VieQjNMxYPnljnVbh6wPJMQ33GaNTG1svm7Ms5itqcmqWaKbZBle/G67pDJczR95+DgNVi Ua9BpwHLJzbB3SIQ1KOMCQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxEAG-0007Cr-DU; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:17:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wn7pljl3.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:41:12 +0000) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300309 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. ]]] People are talking about something called "prescient". What is it? What jobs does it do? Is there a drawback in these jobs? If those topics were discussed, I did not see it. But they are the most important questions about that something, The discussion is focusing on practical issues of merging them, but we should also think about whether the presence of this facility has any drawbacks. Perhaps "prescient" is just "more of the same," convenient features with no deep implications. Let's have a discussion of what it does, so we can see whether that is true or not. -- 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)