Re: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7

[Michael Albinus]

"Daiki Ueno" <address@hidden> writes:

> 2007/10/28, Miles Bader <address@hidden>:
>>   2) It includes "password.el" (in lisp/gnus), which I seemed to
>>      remember was not liked in previous emacs-devel discussion.  However
>>      that's a small enough file that I suppose it can be easily replaced
>>      if necessary.
>
> I can't remember the previous discussion, but I think it's not so bad
> for *applications* (such as Gnus) to use password.el.  I'd just say
> that it's bad if it is implicitly used by low-level *libraries* such
> as pgg.el.

Tramp uses also password.el if it is in the load path. It is a
convenient library if somebody uses an scp-like method, but does not run
ssh-agent.

It would be important to know whether there are deficiencies which would
make the use of password.el impossible for Tramp.

> Regards,

Best regards, Michael.