Unified file-name syntax?

[Michael Albinus]

Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> writes:

>> Major concern was that EFS could be broken in package
>> management. 
>
> It seems to me both syntaxes could co-exist because of the added colon
> in the unified syntax.  Am I wrong?

The "added colon" is optional. If you have set tramp-default-method,
you don't need a method specification in the file name, and the syntax
looks pretty like EFS.

>> There was also the suggestion that a unified syntax shall be closed to
>> URL syntax; this would need an agreement with the GNU Emacs people.
>
> I see it was discussed on xemacs-beta.  Was there ever any progress on
> the discussion with GNU Emacs?

That was before my time with Tramp. That means, more than 5 years ago.

> Yet one more issue I hadn't kept current on.  While I dislike the v3
> switch for the same reason Stephen has, I can't say I have any concrete
> objection, either, and I can't find any statement in the mailing lists
> that say anybody else does.  (I may be wrong, though.)
>
> Could we work around this by having Tramp not be auto-activated, but
> requiring some explicit (require 'tramp) or (turn-on-tramp) or something?

Stephen did negotiate with the FSF licensing clerk. I'll let it to him
for continuation. And of course, I'll be happy to contribute latest
Tramp to XEmacs once this problem is solved.

Best regards, Michael.