Re: [ELPA] New package: auth-source-xoauth2-plugin

[Xiyue Deng]

Hi Philip,

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to submit my small addon to enable xoauth2 support for
>> inclusion in GNU (or non-GNU) Elpa, whichever is the best fit.  This is
>> a follow-up of the discussion at [1].  This package depends on
>> oauth2.el[2] for xoauth2 handling and advices the auth-source code to
>> enable xoauth2 support.  The code is hosted on GitLab[3].  I have been
>> testing this for a few months and it seems to work fairly reliably for
>> my Gmail so I think it's probably time to let more people try it.
>>
>> A short description is below:
>>
>> ;; An auth-source plugin to enable xoauth2 support.
>>
>> ;; This package provides a global minor mode for enabling xoauth2 in
>> ;; auth-source.  Once adding information required for xoauth2 authentication 
>> in
>> ;; your auth-source file and enabling the global minor mode, one can
>> ;; authenticate through xoauth2 to supported services, e.g. Gmail, etc.
>>
>> ;; See README.org for a more detailed introduction and usages.
>>
>> As I don't have push access, please let me know how to proceed.  Thanks
>> in advance!
>
> I can add it for you do elpa.git, don't worry about that.  Code-wise, I
> don't have any comments, I just wonder if you really want to call the
> package "auth-source-xoauth2-plugin" or if "auth-source-xoauth2" would
> be enough?
>

Thanks again for your review on an early draft!  I choose this name
because there is already an "auth-source-xoauth2" available on
GitHub[1].

I would like to note that the general ideal of my plugin shares with
"auth-source-xoauth2" that both advice the auth-source-search backends
to calculate what is needed for xoauth2 to work.  The implementation is
done independently, and besides several obvious coding choice ("*-let"
assignments and "setq"s) there is no derivative relation with that code.
I hope this explanation is sufficient to declare my code is not a
derivative work of "auth-source-xoauth2", but do let me know if further
clarification is required.

Thanks again in advance!

[1] https://github.com/ccrusius/auth-source-xoauth2

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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