From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: serving ELPA over HTTP/S
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 07:50:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpp6fnt3w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871tiw86ez.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 04 May 2015 15:54:44 -0400")
> Clearly, because I think it's worth annoying the user, since plain HTTP
> should be the exception.
"Because I like it" is not a very compelling argument in this case.
SM> Why? Why not just
SM> (if (we-have-gnutls) <thehttpsurl> <thehttpurl>)
> 2) because I don't think this should be set in the code. It's a user choice.
We're talking about the expression that computes the default value of
a custom var. So, of course, the user can override it in the usual way.
> 1) so ELPA archives can have multiple URLs. Assuming there's just one is
> not ideal in the long term.
That's a separate issue, unrelated to http/https.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-05 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 13:25 serving ELPA over HTTP/S Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-04 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 14:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-04 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 16:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-04 17:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 19:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 11:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-05-05 14:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 14:53 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-05 17:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 14:42 ` Artur Malabarba
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