Re: bug#29108: 25.3; ERC SASL support

[Adam Porter]

On 11/9/22 23:28, J.P. wrote:

> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> > But Adam Porter (CC'ing), the maintainer of ement.el (available on GNU
> > ELPA), a Matrix client, claims that auth-source is from the dark side[1]
> > and refused to support it claiming it's not suitable for general use[2].

Please note: I did not expect to be mentioned in this way here.  It's 
not my intention to speak poorly of others' software, especially in 
public.  In the Reddit post I made, I tried to be objective and show the 
problems clearly with code examples.

And that is merely my opinion, of course, based on the shortcomings I 
noted (e.g. the lack of API to update a secret, the undocumented 
error-handling signals, etc).  I expect that, were I to use it in my 
software, I would end up working around these problems and answering 
users' support questions about them; and since I don't use it myself, 
either, it doesn't seem like a good idea to do so.

Nevertheless, it's clearly used by a number of people and third-party 
packages that integrate with it, so take my opinion of it with a grain 
of salt.  If it seems useful to you, by all means, use it.