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Re: Emacs and the Status Notification Specification


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: Emacs and the Status Notification Specification
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:46:33 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:18:28 -0400 Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote: 

RS>     Regarding REL, it's not a bad name, but sounds a bit like RHEL, the
RS>     RedHat Enterprise Linux distribution.  So it could be confusing.

RS> RHEL is not mentioned terribly often in our discussions, and it is a
RS> GNU/Linux distro, which is a very different kind of thing from a
RS> library of Lisp packages.  I think the context will usually avoid
RS> confusion.

RS> Thus, this is a small flaw -- much smaller than the problem we are
RS> trying to solve.  If our choice is GELPA or REL, we should definitely
RS> use REL.

RS> Or we could add "GNU" and make it GREL.  Is that better than REL?

RS> REXL, suggested recently, is not bad.  Or GREXL?  GEXL?
RS> Any of them would avoid this predictable confusion.

My vote is for GELD:  GNU Emacs Lisp Depot.  Seriously.  But any of the
others are good too.

Ted




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