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From: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Subject: Re: Upstreaming url-http-ntlm.el
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:10:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3h6u4ud2u.fsf@fitzsim.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ier4jqfl7f5.fsf@janestreet.com> (Spencer Baugh's message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:22:06 -0400")

Hi,

Spencer made the following suggestion:

Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com> writes:

> It would be nice if url-http-ntlm was packaged with core Emacs, because
> (in my experience) there are lots of corporate proxies which require
> NTLM authentication to even reach the outside internet and thereby
> download packages such as url-http-ntlm.  So there's a chicken and egg
> problem.
>
> Have you considered upstreaming this package, to resolve this problem?

I think this rationale for having url-http-ntlm bundled into the Emacs
release tarball is strong.  Any objections?  If not, in what release
could it be included?  And, what is the procedure for including it?

Thanks,
Thomas



       reply	other threads:[~2023-03-28 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ier4jqfl7f5.fsf@janestreet.com>
2023-03-28 15:10 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons [this message]
2023-03-28 17:21   ` Upstreaming url-http-ntlm.el Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-17 19:07     ` Thomas Fitzsimmons

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