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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [gnus git]  branch master updated: =1= netrc.el: Return the value of the "default" entry.
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:44:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6ai3l78.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ocbezy2d.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:06:02 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> I mean more from a code sprawl perspective.  It seems that the netrc.el
>> parser can comfortably live inside auth-source.el and then we can avoid
>> some of the query language ambiguity between the two APIs, plus it will
>> be easier to do delete and create operations.  It's really not a strong
>> feeling though, so feel free to say "no."

LMI> No, it would make sense to only have the auth-source entry points.
LMI> Unless there are other third-party packages that use netrc-* stuff
LMI> directly... 

I only see smtpmail.el inside Emacs.  Everyone else can simply adjust to
call auth-source-netrc-parse or whatever (if they want to bypass the
auth-sources mechanism).

Interestingly, Tramp has its own netrc parser.  Also ange-ftp.el has its
own.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1P1PPS-0004D8-00@quimby.gnus.org>
2010-09-30 21:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 21:50   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 22:01     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 22:06       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 22:44         ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-10-01  4:24           ` Michael Albinus
2010-10-01 16:41           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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