Re: [ELPA] New package: plz

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > I hope we can consolidate this with `request.el` and `url.el` sooner
  > > rather than later.  As others mentioned, adding a backend to plz which
  > > uses url.el (or at least doesn't require `curl` to be installed) would
  > > be great.

  > Some people don't like the interface but that was never the main problem
  > I had with url.el.  What caused me pain is its bugs, and I suspect for
  > many other package maintainers it is the same.

Please be it noted that I have no opinion about url.el's code.  And no
opinion about plz.el's code.  I criticized its name for lack of clear
relation to the job it does, but nothing else about it.

The concern I raised is the avoidable extra complexity of having three
different libraries to do similar jobs by different methods, with
overlapping but different interfaces.

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