To Tramp or not to Tramp (was: What's the right way to detect libxml2?)

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Richard,

> Every time I see "Tramp", what enters into my mind is "Trump".
> I may not be the only one who reacts this way.
> Might we want to change its name?

Being the Tramp maintainer, I'm opposed to this. I do not want to let
whomever dictate what we do, being the POTUS or not.

And as John said, there are many external uses of the tramp-* namespace.

As a practical matter, I ignore every message silently, which uses the
"joke" to name Tramp Trump.

> Does the name "Tramp" have a particular meaning?

“Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol”.

Best regards, Michael.