From: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Subject: Re: Upstreaming url-http-ntlm.el
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:10:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3h6u4ud2u.fsf@fitzsim.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ier4jqfl7f5.fsf@janestreet.com> (Spencer Baugh's message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:22:06 -0400")
Hi,
Spencer made the following suggestion:
Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com> writes:
> It would be nice if url-http-ntlm was packaged with core Emacs, because
> (in my experience) there are lots of corporate proxies which require
> NTLM authentication to even reach the outside internet and thereby
> download packages such as url-http-ntlm. So there's a chicken and egg
> problem.
>
> Have you considered upstreaming this package, to resolve this problem?
I think this rationale for having url-http-ntlm bundled into the Emacs
release tarball is strong. Any objections? If not, in what release
could it be included? And, what is the procedure for including it?
Thanks,
Thomas
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2023-03-28 15:10 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons [this message]
2023-03-28 17:21 ` Upstreaming url-http-ntlm.el Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-17 19:07 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
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