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

[<tc...@fr...>]

Adrian Aichner <ad...@us...> writes:

> tc...@fr... (Tobias C. Rittweiler) writes:
>
> > Adrian Aichner <ad...@xe...> writes:
> >
> > > 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?

Well, probably not of that particular test because from my
understanding, this would just test for `netrc' being already loaded or
not. Using REQUIRE with the &optional NOERROR being set, seems to be a
solution where you can better determine if this package is really
unloadable. Of course, I'm open for corrections on this and suggestion
or caveats in general on how to hack this up best.


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

Let's consider it to be the most essential kind of auth. configuration.


--tcr.