Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes

[Simon Josefsson]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The package allows better network authentication for IMAP (in Gnus),
>     SMTP (e.g., smtpmail.el) and third party packages (my Sieve package
>     for instance).
>
> Would this perhaps replace some existing Emacs packages?

Not really.  It is a clean modularization of some code that has been
done ad-hoc in imap.el and smtpmail.el (and sieve*.el, but that is not
part of Emacs).

>     Should I send a patch?  I have not verified all paperwork yet though.
>
> Do you think that package is cleanly written?  That is the main thing
> we need to check, and it is fine if you check it for us first.

Yes, I like it.  It does not depend on any other libraries (self
contained), the API is documented in a TEXI manual (it seems
incomplete though) and mimics the standardized Java API for SASL.  I
am using it in my local copies of imap.el and sieve*.el.

It is definitely better than having it implemented differently and
undocumented in imap.el/smtpmail.el which is the current situation.

I'll send the patch, track down papers, and then commit the patch
unless someone objects in the meantime.