Re: Refactoring of mml1991.el, mml2015.el, mml-smime.el

From: Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Refactoring of mml1991.el, mml2015.el, mml-smime.el
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 21:28:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87io5d7dwa.fsf@informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vb9fvpww.fsf-ueno@gnu.org>

On 2015-11-06, at 11:10, Daiki Ueno wrote:

> Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org> writes:
>
>> On 2014-09-21, at 12:08, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote:

>> In my code, each pair is replaced with a single variable with the prefix
>> “mml-epg-openpgp”, e.g., “mml-epg-openpgp-cache-passphrase”.
>>
>> Concerning S/MIME, I introduced the same variables with prefix
>> “mml-epg-smime”.
>
> The prefix "mml-epg" sounds a bit too much implementation detail.  How
> about renaming those prefixes to mml{,-secure}-pgpmime /
> mml{,-secure}-smime and moving to mml-sec.el?
>
> (I would use the word "pgpmime" to distinguish PGP/MIME signatures from
> inline PGP signatures.  I remember there is already a use of the word in
> Gnus).

Yes, I can move that to mml-sec.el.  However, note that I’m not
restricting functionality to pgpmime.  Inline PGP is still available
(via mml1991.el).  The variables whose names include “openpgp” in my
code cover pgpmime (mml2015.el) as well as inline PGP (mml1991.el).
Therefore, I’d like to use “openpgp” instead of “pgpmime”.

Moreover, in mml-sec.el the variables mml-secure-cache-passphrase
and mml-secure-passphrase-cache-expiry are defined, which have
specialized versions in mml-smime.el, mml1991.el, and mml2015.el,
which I meant to delete or to supersede by two new variables (for
OpenPGP and S/MIME).  So far, I didn’t receive strong feedback on
the related issue of my e-mail (passphrase caching in Emacs vs
gpg-agent).  Now I wonder whether to get rid of all of them except
those in mml-secure.el (with a recommendation to use gpg-agent).

How should I proceed from here?  Ask for opinions on other mailing
lists such as the following two?
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs

> I saw a few functions prefixed with "jl-".  Maybe they can be moved to
> mm-util.el or gnus-util.el?

Indeed, gnus-util.el seems appropriate.

Best wishes
Jens