bug#29108: 25.3; ERC SASL support

[Alex Branham]

On Wed 23 Oct 2019 at 11:24, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
>>> Since freenode requires SASL support if you're connecting from certain
>>> networks, it would be nice if ERC supported connecting via SASL. There
>>> seems to have been some work on this a few years ago:
>>> https://github.com/jane-lx/erc-sasl
>>
>> That copyright for that code may or may not be assignable to Emacs, cf
>> https://github.com/jane-lx/erc-sasl/issues/2.
>
> SASL support in Emacs would be nice.  That URL 404s now, but there are
> other copies of it out there.  The primary author (Joseph Gay) does have
> copyright assignments on file, but does anybody know the provenance of
> the file?

Here's one copy: https://gitlab.com/psachin/erc-sasl/blob/master/erc-sasl.el