Re: ELPA submission: plz-see

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:50:45 +0000
> 
> 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

Too bad, FIWIW.  The name is not helpful, and I personally don't even
find it "funny" in any sense of the word.

By proliferating packages with unhelpful names, we make ELPA and Emacs
in general harder to use.