Re: auth-source.el API change: Gnus and Emacs sync

[Michael Albinus]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Ted,

> I have an important change to the auth-source API.  I am attaching a
> patch against the Emacs trunk (including Tramp) to change calls of
> `auth-source-user-or-password' to calls of `auth-source-search'.

This a problem for Tramp. It's upstream version is supposed to support
also older Emacsen, which do not know the changed auth-source.el.

We would need a compatibility function (preferred in tramp-compat.el),
which uses the new API if available, and falls back to the old API otherwise.

I also believe, that tramp-imap.el shall not use auth-source-*
directly. It might be better to use tramp-enter-password (or
tramp-read-passwd). Maybe we could clean it up.

> Thanks
> Ted

Best regards, Michael.