Re: Upstreaming url-http-ntlm.el

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>
>> Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
>> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:10:01 -0400
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Spencer made the following suggestion:
>> 
>> Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com> writes:
>> 
>> > It would be nice if url-http-ntlm was packaged with core Emacs, because
>> > (in my experience) there are lots of corporate proxies which require
>> > NTLM authentication to even reach the outside internet and thereby
>> > download packages such as url-http-ntlm.  So there's a chicken and egg
>> > problem.
>> >
>> > Have you considered upstreaming this package, to resolve this problem?
>> 
>> I think this rationale for having url-http-ntlm bundled into the Emacs
>> release tarball is strong.  Any objections?
>
> No objections, but it "needs work" before it can be included.  At the
> very least, its main entry point should be documented in url.texi, and
> some minor code and documentation cleanup is in order.  I also am not
> sure we want to keep the change log at the end of the file.

Noted, I'll fix those before pushing; thanks for reviewing.

>> If not, in what release could it be included?
>
> Since it "needs work", I think it should go to master.

OK, thanks.  Spencer is trying to fix bug#62598.  I'll hold off adding
url-http-ntlm to master until that bug is fixed.

>> And, what is the procedure for including it?
>
> From my POV, see above.  If the maintainers want to keep the package
> on ELPA as well, then Stefan and Philip should probably chime in and
> tell what is required on their part.

I would maintain it on the Emacs master branch, but also make it
available in GNU ELPA, for use by older Emacs versions, like I do with
ntlm.el.

Thomas