Subject: bug#8385: 24.0.50; rcirc auto-authentication slightly broken

From: Deniz Dogan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:59:12 +0200

2011/3/31 Deniz Dogan <[email-masked]>:
> 2011/3/31 Ted Zlatanov <[email-masked]>:
>> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:13:17 +0200 Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> TH> === modified file 'lisp/net/rcirc.el'
>> ...
>> TH> +            (dolist (s rcirc-authinfo ret)
>> TH> +              (when (string-match (car s) rcirc-server-name)
>>
>> Would it be useful to wire rcirc.el to use auth-source.el?
>>
>> Ted
>>
>
> As I understand it, we are waiting for the FSF to review Neale
> Pickett's copyright assignment papers. He has written a few patches
> which we want to merge, one of which adds auth-source.el
> compatibility.
>
> https://github.com/nealey/rcirc
>

Actually, my bad. Neale's patches have nothing to do with
auth-source.el. I don't know much about auth-source.el but if you feel
that it's easy to wire them together, feel free to write functionality
for it!

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Deniz Dogan