From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Cesar Crusius <cesar.crusius@gmail.com>
Cc: cesar.crusius@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: XOAUTH2 (GMail) auth source integration package now on github
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:15:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fqriI-0006k6-Dp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pxwhftzdm3ub.fsf@ccrusius.svl.corp.google.com> (message from Cesar Crusius on Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:04:44 -0700)
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> Yes -- for a variety of reasons, I don't think this is a good
> candidate for inclusion in ELPA or Emacs itself, but should stay
> as a standalone package (added to MELPA whenever I have the time
> or somebody else does it).
Please don't add it to MELPA if it has a nontechnical problem!
> Strictly speaking, there is no dependency on Google at all in the
> package: it should work with any "XOAUTH2-compliant server." In
> practice, however, Gmail is the only reason people need support
> for XOAUTH2 authentication mechanisms, so it's a moot point.
That might make a significant difference. I thought you were saying
that this program itself depended on Google, but now it appears I
misunderstood that.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-14 16:38 XOAUTH2 (GMail) auth source integration package now on github Cesar Crusius
2018-08-16 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-16 16:25 ` Cesar Crusius
2018-08-17 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-17 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-17 15:04 ` Cesar Crusius
2018-08-18 3:15 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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