Re: NonGNU ELPA: Conditions for accepting a potential new package 'rmsbolt' ?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com>,  Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>,
>  "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:49:51 -0500
> 
> No, `convert-standard-filename` is useful when you got some string from
> somewhere and you'd like to generate a valid file name from that.
> Usually the string is an almost constant like "~/.emacs" and the purpose
> is to deal with quirks like when file names can't start with a dot or can't
> include a colon.

Right.

> I can't help much more on if/when/how to convert an internal filename
> into one that works in a win32 shell, 'cause I have no experience with
> that.  AFAICT most ELisp code doesn't do anything special for that
> (whereas they sometimes do such things for Tramp purposes), so I'd
> naively expect that it "just works".

It "just works" because we do the necessary conversion and massage
under the hood.  Whether it will work in this case depends on what
Lisp APIs are used for that.