Re: [Erc-help] Re: ERC could take advantage of .authinfo/.netrc

[Adrian A. <ad...@us...>]

tc...@fr... (Tobias C. Rittweiler) writes:

> Adrian Aichner <ad...@xe...> writes:
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>> tc...@fr... (Tobias C. Rittweiler) writes:
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>> > Adrian Aichner <ad...@xe...> writes:
>> >
>> > > Making erc depend on gnus would be a pretty bad idea, IMO.
>> > >
>> > > Not that XEmacs packages don't have interdependencies, but this
>> > > one seems like a bit of a strech.
>> >
>> > Of course. But be aware that I haven't spoken about a eat-or-die
>> > dependency. (In fact, I understand `netrc.el' as being there for
>> > deploying it with your own code base for the case that Gnus ain't
>> > installed.)
>>
>> Ah, and netrc.el is in the mail-lib XEmacs package, not in gnus.  I
>> just checked.
>
> As well as in in GNU Emacs (22.0.50 at least); there it's in
> net/netrc.el. Does that relativise your complain? :-)

Yes, it does -- not that I have any say here :-)

Are you thinking of optional functionality based on
(featurep 'netrc)
test?

Using an ftp configuration file for erc seems a bit abusive, though.

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> --tcr.
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