Re: ELPA submission: plz-see

[Philip Kaludercic]

brickviking <brickviking@gmail.com> writes:

> I have it listed here in my elpa packages listing. A very short summary
> from
> the package itself is as follows:
>
> `plz' is an HTTP library for Emacs.  It uses `curl' as a backend, which
> avoids some of the issues with using Emacs's built-in `url' library.

And yes, the name is not indicative of what the packages does, but the
author had a strong preference of using a "fun" name and has advocated
this on multiple occasions, so it is extremely unlikely that it will
ever change -- not worth attempting to discuss again.  My only hope was
that this wouldn't proliferate further to other package names :/

> HTH, brickviking
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 15:31, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
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>>   > > Totally.  Perhaps if you had a look into plz you would appreciate
>> this
>>   > > fact :-).
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>> I looked at plz (disambiguation) in Wikipedia, and found nothing
>> that seems to be what you mean here.  What is the plz in question?
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