Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:36:56 +0200
> 
> > Please do use shell-quote-argument.  Fixing any problems in
> > shell-quote-argument is orthogonal to this package.  Inventing your
> > own functions for that is not the right way.
> 
> I won't use shell-quote-argument so long as it doesn't provide the same
> semantics.

IMO (and that of others), it provides the correct semantics for this
kind of functionality.

Please feel free to convince us what different semantics it should
provide.  If you succeed, shell-quote-argument will be changed as
needed.

But if you don't succeed, then as long as you want your package to be
part of ELPA, please accept the opinions of the Emacs maintenance
team, even if you don't necessarily agree.  That's the nature of
community projects such as Emacs and ELPA.  The goal is to provide a
coherent set of packages that all adhere to some common standard,
which users can rely upon.  If we all start rolling our own
replacements for APIs we think should work slightly differently, the
result will be chaos: a set of packages that only don't really work
together.