Re: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?]

[Arthur Miller]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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> Does request.el indeed duplicate built-in functionality?
I wouldn't think so. It models an asychronous framework for network
requests.

> I don't know for certain what it does, but if it is just
> "try curl, then url.el", that may still be an improvement
> over what we have now.
>
> But maybe it could be added very simply to url.el.
Sure, you could do own wrapper, but the man already modelled one, why
not just use it?

Author is Arakaki Takafumi, I don't know if he has signed FSF policy or
not, the package itself is GPL:ed.

I have cc:ed him, so let see if he answers, he can maybe best answer all
the questions.