From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Google modules integration Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:00:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <878w3a1x9s.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <877hiu15so.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284116429 709 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2010 11:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: carsten.dominik@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Julien Danjou Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 13:00:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou1LF-0006KD-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:00:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou1LF-0006j5-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:00:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48192 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou1L6-0006i8-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou1L3-0006SE-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm2.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.2]:52438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou1L3-0006Ro-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:00:13 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost3.adm.correo ([10.20.102.124]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 4vWC1f01h2h2L9m3Mz0BBb; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:00:11 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.42.227]) by IMPmailhost3.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 4z0A1f0044u4RdP1jz0AdN; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:00:11 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BFC9E660D2; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:00:09 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <877hiu15so.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> (Julien Danjou's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:17:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129879 Archived-At: >> Without having thought much about it, my reaction is rather negative, >> since we do not want to install packages dedicated to supporting >> proprietary software. > This is not support supporting proprietary software. > This is doing HTTP requests and doing some json or XML parsing on the > replies. The refusal to include packages dedicated to supporting proprietary software is purely political, so the technical details you mention don't matter: the protocol is proprietary (even if built above standards like json, XML, TCP, ...) and the server software with which you communicate is also proprietary (tho it probably also uses a lot of Free Software internally). Stefan