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 submission: plz-see Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:10:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y1fkbmut.fsf@gmail.com> <83y1fk9vcu.fsf@gnu.org> <87bkcfw5ai.fsf@posteo.net> <87cywubl7g.fsf@gmail.com> <87il6lu97q.fsf@posteo.net> <87o7gd9v8u.fsf@gmail.com> <87o7gbwa0a.fsf@posteo.net> <83h6m36z1v.fsf@gnu.org> 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="10836"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, brickviking@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 04 03:11:59 2023 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 1qz68l-0002bN-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:11:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qz67j-0007FU-Uf; Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:10:55 -0400 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 1qz67i-0007FK-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:10:54 -0400 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 1qz67h-00005s-LY; Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:10:53 -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=j1PvWUvokxVrwmi00kDMM329Sjeit+XUQvbf2CsVKi4=; b=TTQJWFuAxnn/ GjNsjHqSW85D1GEq1NWblCfx+k8wffAuocQVoWidMK9EVEyyaXs1z3F0Cl55NqYeWmdRUaTy/uaDc 6LyihnU1Pda8hcaii9MyPdL9kCakkzigRETGepcB/YEBGvG54k/PuGp09dAqT9/8rpCqWxiPwflCg K8Bxh1XUfe+IDUi3FzPlQVzMmKSvI2eySuuHGF1mLjHa0mu1B9VwycuuCQZWxSfcUVHAZLSS3+Ud8 Ao4dBLvxFlL9CDsj7wfcn/t4hywln4HaULjhEoBcNEVaf3XqFwjJ6ojrlk9dVJrfBUWkHRoE5yZMx A/q7Iuu7oe5ySIJSIQPcKg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qz67h-0000iK-D8; Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:10:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83h6m36z1v.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:06:36 +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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312183 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. ]]] > > > I have it listed here in my elpa packages listing. A very short summary > > > from > > > the package itself is as follows: > > > > > > `plz' is an HTTP library for Emacs. Does having this in ELPA add something significant to Emacs? It uses `curl' as a backend, which > > > avoids some of the issues with using Emacs's built-in `url' library. Would it be feasible to improve the `url' library to make `plz' unnecessary? Would it be feasible to change `url' compatibly to do its work using `plz'? Either way, we would have just one package for this job, and that would be simpler than having two. -- 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)