From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU Emacs: Client/Server Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:32:40 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040206100240.4293B4F@frontend3.messagingengine.com> References: <20040129111259.67CF418B@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <32D82A01-5253-11D8-82BB-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <20040129121313.766CE37D@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040130045855.1A6A92E@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040202092212.C73932E@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040203044651.3E26A31@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040205095216.528FC31@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040206053754.30BFC4B@frontend NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076061856 10985 80.91.224.253 (6 Feb 2004 10:04:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 11:04:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ap2qJ-0007IO-00 for ; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:04:11 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ap2qI-0005i3-00 for ; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:04:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2py-0006px-KP for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 05:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2ps-0006ps-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 05:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2pM-0006nG-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 05:03:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.25] (helo=out1.smtp.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2or-0006lB-5p; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 05:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B784D4E8C; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 05:02:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 4293B4F; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 05:02:40 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.72; T1.001; A1.60; B2.21; Q2.21) Original-To: "David Kastrup" X-Sasl-Enc: fQcStD9uLox4slhITo8dew 1076061760 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19766 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19766 On 06 Feb 2004 10:52:17 +0100, "David Kastrup" said: > "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" writes: > > > On 05 Feb 2004 10:05:01 -0500, "Stefan Monnier" > > said: > > > Maybe you know it and you're just experimenting, but I just want to make > > > sure you do realize that gnuclient/gnuserver already solve those > > > problems, so clearly there isn't much point is creating yet another system. > > > > What about portability and distribution issues since it is written in C? > > What about it? Sorry for not being clear. I meant using platform dependend stuff like sockets and other headers which are not available on windoze platform in the same way as it is on Unix. > > My idea was to write the whole stuff in Elisp and allow Emacs to > > handle the platform dependend stuff. with this approach, I can be > > sure that where Emacs runs, the client/server code will run with no > > extra effort. > > I'd be surprised if you manage to compile Emacs without a C compiler > on any platform. In the above statement, I meant the porting issue (in writing it in Elisp) and not the compilation part of GNU Emacs. I would like to know if there is anyone who has succeeded in building all the sources in "lib-src" folder and user "server.el" on a windoze platform (not using the cygwin layer). -dhruva ________________________________________ Dhruva Krishnamurthy Proud FSF member: #1935 http://schemer.fateback.com/