Re: [emms-help] mpv player alternative with json-ipc

[Yoni Rabkin]

Mike Kazantsev <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, 26 May 2018 01:42:47 +0200
> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > None that I can think of, unless we move to emms-plr-... or
>> > something, which isn't a huge improvement; I think that players
>> > should have their own namespace.
>> >
>> > I've always kind of visually "tuned out" the long names. I guess I
>> > could also write up some code to abbreviate the display of these
>> > names on the Emacs-level.
>> >
>> > What do other people think of this?  
>> 
>> What about https://github.com/Malabarba/names ?
>
> It does look like a nice solution.

Copyright wouldn't be a problem since an ELPA package would have the FSF
as the copyright holder.

However, I would be against adding an ad-hoc packaging system to
Emms. As someone who has written a lot of Common Lisp to for a living I
can safely say that a package system replaces one set of problems with
another (`shadowing-import' anyone?); it's a matter of which set of
problems you want to deal with (1). I've have chosen the set of problems
for Emms that come with a global namespace in the name of making the
code accessible and uniform both internally and within Emacs. Solutions
should probably be in the reader instead (2).

(1) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg00906.html

(2) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-07/msg00820.html

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