Re: ELPA submission: plz-see

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, brickviking@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:10:53 -0400
> 
> Would it be feasible to improve the `url' library to make `plz' unnecessary?

It should be, but no one is working on that, or expressed the intent
of doing so, AFAIK.

> Would it be feasible to change `url' compatibly to do its work using `plz'?

FWIW, I don't think it would be a good idea, since (AFAIU) plz uses
curl under the hood, and that program is not guaranteed to be
installed on all the supported platforms.  Nor do I like the idea of
having Emacs depend on external software where we have the same
capabilities built in, i.e. when the only reason for using external
programs is that our implementation is in some use cases not
performant enough.  We should instead improve our implementation.