Re: Emacs 29: Package netrc is deprecated

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 07 May 2024 16:58:33 +0200, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> said:

>>>>> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
    >> The replacement package is `auth-source`.
    >> `netrc-parse` says it's replaced by `auth-source-netrc-parse-all`.

    Steinar> Thanks!  Got me part of the way (so far)

    Steinar> auth-source-netrc-parse-all seems to return a compatible result to what
    Steinar> netrc-parse returns.

    Steinar> But there were no replacements for netrc-machine and netrc-get that I
    Steinar> could see?

    Steinar> netrc-get is trivial, netrc-machine less so (though I could copy the
    Steinar> current one out of the emac source, I guess..? I would prefer not to).

(auth-source-search :host "my.host.com" :port 993)

(I guess the return format is different)

    Steinar> In the auth-source code there is lots of talk about backends, which I
    Steinar> assume are Gnus backends, and little/nothing about using it as a netrc
    Steinar> file parser.

No, theyʼre auth source backends. .netrc, .authinfo, 'passʼ, oauth2
etc.

Robert
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