From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:21:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87v8zbp5l7.fsf@posteo.net> <87ee5ymhsz.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4925"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 28 05:25:34 2021 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 1n243J-000160-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:25:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35180 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n243I-0003p9-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:25:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n23zC-0005sN-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=53598 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n23zC-0002Ud-3i; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:21:18 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=eFne/sDOTJjirIYMbGUUJ+UhF2SGAxBCeQlLzG1Pxao=; b=Zm08xIfUodOq 8JvicRHNSM2bnKXCNeEnMy8YusV+uxSib0EU5Z8qstfTQcC4h1Sp6Y7CqJw3pzuszauV8AOblRxwy hPFHSiSX2NpHNWJhY7lFmkJSw5urEp06VcQbVdd7uEwtrjOGX1XxB/dAVkH+1gzkDkJ00sqPpWn3s CPOe90nV7zcydtHXnvTByRUGu0CDy5R+N5ACnXY3s/O/j4UwrlVo6CSeOZp1g9dhgLqRie9eoMEtS fhhjSdSBGbbniGBIH1HazrC37mETrD5lz1kScL7+4G4j2WWF34CNjgs91OfVCk0lRXi36iz6ZyfcA 8dd8H3dJaan7s78MN2BomQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n23zC-0007fW-B0; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:21:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ee5ymhsz.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:02:52 +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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283475 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. ]]] > I am imagining a command like `package-fetch'. You could give it a > package name or a repository URL, and it would clone the contents into > ~/.emacs.d/elpa/devel. Package.el would treat this as a special kind of > package (next to "installed", "dependency" and "built-in"), hopefully > being able to reuse the existing package-loading functionality. I see the usefulness of this. The first step of it -- operating on a package name, which would very likely point to a repo site that we condemn, would put us into a moral contradiction. However, there's no moral problem in the rest of it. Would you like to implement `package-fetch' so that it always wants a URL as argument? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)