From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] Excorporate: Exchange integration package Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:16:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423491411 17105 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2015 14:16:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Fitzsimmons Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 09 15:16:51 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YKp8r-0003Gb-9L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:16:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKp8l-000081-MC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKp8T-00005T-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKp8Q-0002Rz-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:16:25 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:45841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKp8Q-0002RZ-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:16:22 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t19EGItv022501; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:16:18 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 502C71240; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:16:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Thomas Fitzsimmons's message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:24:52 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5212=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5212> : inlines <2053> : streams <1387385> : uri <1850511> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182688 Archived-At: > OK, I'm definitely sympathetic to this view. In this regard, my main > concern is that it's currently impossible for other Emacs developers to > test Excorporate using/against only Free Software. One idea is if > OpenChange could grow EWS support in tandem with the features that > Excorporate actually uses, then there would be a Free Software option > for full Excorporate testing at all times (note: I'm not necessarily > signing up for this work). Would that improve the appeal of Excorporate > for ELPA? Yes, if Excorporate can be used with OpenChange, then that'd be fine. > The counter-argument here is that Exchange Web Services is essentially > just providing a network service. From following emacs-devel I was > under the impression that Free Software that talks to a network service > over a protocol was OK, regardless of what was implementing the protocol > on the other end. Hmm... that's a very good point. Let me sleep on it. Stefan