From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA submission: plz-see Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:06:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83h6m36z1v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y1fkbmut.fsf@gmail.com> <83y1fk9vcu.fsf@gnu.org> <87bkcfw5ai.fsf@posteo.net> <87cywubl7g.fsf@gmail.com> <87il6lu97q.fsf@posteo.net> <87o7gd9v8u.fsf@gmail.com> <87o7gbwa0a.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12973"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: brickviking@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 03 09:07:57 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qypDh-00036z-I5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2023 09:07:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qypCo-0003nT-JP; Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qypCn-0003nJ-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qypCl-0006Ob-Qw; Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:06:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=9I/ksNthBuSh/W2VPPmu9SMtb1lVn88zMGkHgpMopgM=; b=khCaEQi2v4+s +TJ0R2qNzOup1qmWFDQYiWmExKtbNnYMdb9y8DhNFQRPDy3QHnG3ZjJT65j9zpdRjlxyQKXelQaRo vPO11wF2KqeqSM+Knylp31X3jbEW/ItgFhzclnvxmOJN8g9Z0VFZqpkS66ER4CYxHQfw+jmh8Q+QP zpILrrsuNmGjjW+IrSML5HtRyonOp2JIplXHQ1zEMc5J3ZRGy7KhjgSbPmo/ZwHLKFlwtq7JqQ4he CIL/hzTLkIcy3+bc/IihEHc4a5DGbhqpRMR0Zr7QPsKalqP2/7YziBNIo2/C5cMYB+k6Ij8u4O0BA oaQ5JlA+6BI7gFSzrbNRpQ==; In-Reply-To: <87o7gbwa0a.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:50:45 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312153 Archived-At: > From: Philip Kaludercic > Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:50:45 +0000 > > brickviking 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.