bug#29108: 25.3; ERC SASL support

Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:51:44 +0600

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Adam Porter <[email protected]> writes:

> On 11/9/22 23:28, J.P. wrote:
>
>> Akib Azmain Turja <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> But Adam Porter (CC'ing), the maintainer of ement.el (available on GNU
>>> ELPA), a Matrix client, claims that auth-source is from the dark side[1]
>>> and refused to support it claiming it's not suitable for general use[2].
>
> Please note: I did not expect to be mentioned in this way here.  It's
> not my intention to speak poorly of others' software, especially in
> public.  In the Reddit post I made, I tried to be objective and show
> the problems clearly with code examples.

Sorry, I didn't want to hurt you, please forgive me.

>
> And that is merely my opinion, of course, based on the shortcomings I
> noted (e.g. the lack of API to update a secret, the undocumented
> error-handling signals, etc).  I expect that, were I to use it in my
> software, I would end up working around these problems and answering
> users' support questions about them; and since I don't use it myself,
> either, it doesn't seem like a good idea to do so.

Thanks for the clarification.

>
> Nevertheless, it's clearly used by a number of people and third-party
> packages that integrate with it, so take my opinion of it with a grain
> of salt.  If it seems useful to you, by all means, use it.
>

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