From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: XOAUTH2 (GMail) auth source integration package now on github Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:15:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534562695 23884 195.159.176.226 (18 Aug 2018 03:24:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 03:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cesar.crusius@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Cesar Crusius Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 18 05:24:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fqrr8-00064o-D1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2018 05:24:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqrtC-0006hC-Sr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqrt6-0006h4-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:26:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqriK-0004zE-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqriI-0004wq-Hc; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fqriI-0006k6-Dp; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:15:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Cesar Crusius on Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:04:44 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228651 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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)