Hello,
Following our discussion about namespace I think it's time to start with something concrete where most people are agreeing already.
Past experiences showed me that inclusion of such public library is always complicated due to copyright assignments, but I believe we can skip that painful part as explained later on.
I propose the following plan:
- Check wether there are existing emacs `*-string-* functions that'd be aliased to start with `string-` and make a patch for that. That is, already unify the existing Emacs string library if needed.
- Decide of a set of function that we'd "import" from s.el and namespace them under the `string-` namespace. For example, `s-prepend` would become `string-prepend`. Maybe that can be the whole API of s.el but probably that some will object to that while agreeing on a smaller set.
- Decide how we import these, either by copyright assignments or by importing the function signature and "simply" reimplementing these. Their implementation is usually trivial.
On a side note, I'm curious about 3: given the code is already GPL v3, are we allowed to simply implement the Emacs string-* function using s.el? or copy-paste from it? WARNING I know this is a very touchy subject and my goal is not to offend anyone, especially not the author of this wonderful library, I am just genuinely curious of what is allowed and what is not in this case. I'd not like to do that without the author consent.
Kind regards,
Philippe