From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: brickviking@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELPA submission: plz-see
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:06:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6m36z1v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7gbwa0a.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:50:45 +0000)
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:50:45 +0000
>
> brickviking <brickviking@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have it listed here in my elpa packages listing. A very short summary
> > from
> > the package itself is as follows:
> >
> > `plz' is an HTTP library for Emacs. It uses `curl' as a backend, which
> > avoids some of the issues with using Emacs's built-in `url' library.
>
> And yes, the name is not indicative of what the packages does, but the
> author had a strong preference of using a "fun" name and has advocated
> this on multiple occasions, so it is extremely unlikely that it will
> ever change
Too bad, FIWIW. The name is not helpful, and I personally don't even
find it "funny" in any sense of the word.
By proliferating packages with unhelpful names, we make ELPA and Emacs
in general harder to use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-03 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-30 7:17 ELPA submission: plz-see Augusto Stoffel
2023-10-30 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-31 8:09 ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-10-31 8:43 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-10-31 20:17 ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-11-01 9:14 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-01 18:36 ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-11-01 20:21 ` brickviking
2023-11-03 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-03 6:32 ` brickviking
2023-11-03 7:50 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-03 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-03 14:46 ` Adam Porter
2023-11-04 1:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-04 2:10 ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-04 5:08 ` Adam Porter
2023-11-04 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-04 8:51 ` tomas
2023-11-04 9:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-04 9:34 ` tomas
2023-11-04 13:30 ` Adam Porter
2023-11-04 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-04 14:38 ` Adam Porter
[not found] ` <877cmx4wgd.fsf@dick>
2023-11-04 13:37 ` tomas
[not found] ` <8734xlmwsm.fsf@dick>
2023-11-04 14:24 ` tomas
2023-11-04 10:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-04 12:28 ` Visuwesh
2023-11-04 13:17 ` tomas
2023-11-04 13:13 ` tomas
2023-11-04 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-30 22:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-31 8:09 ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-11-01 0:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-01 7:29 ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-11-01 20:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-31 9:33 ` Mauro Aranda
2023-10-31 20:19 ` Augusto Stoffel
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