From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/? Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:24:27 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2366.81.51.30.174.1098020712.squirrel@yxa.extundo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098620738 12101 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 12:25:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 14:25:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CLhRB-0005qQ-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:25:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhYl-00030W-Rt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhYd-00030F-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhYd-000303-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhYd-000300-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CLhQa-0002vw-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CLhQZ-0006pm-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:24:51 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:24:51 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:24:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eqXDOd1Vp2Vrm1jZmwcvPrP9Rng= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28825 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28825 Richard Stallman writes: > It is new. It will be used by future versions of Gnus, but it is > generally useful. I think it is better if future network related packages > used it, instead of writing its own similar code (which is what is done > today, I think). > > I agree it is useful. Would you please document it in etc/NEWS Done. > and in the manual? The "Reading a Password" node in lispref seem to be a good place. Do you agree? > Should read-passwd be integrated with this new file? Yes, I think that would make sense, assuming that a shorter subr.el is better. Unless someone objects, I'll move it. Btw, what was the reason for renaming read-password to read-passwd? It seems the earlier name was more consistent with the coding style.