From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:37:25 -0500 Message-ID: <20150113103725.5cea4c9e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <54B1B97E.9070204@gmail.com> <87fvbhk4ha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54B456C8.6010506@gmail.com> <83ppaj4afw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421163476 21334 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2015 15:37:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, jcb62281@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 16:37:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YB3XP-0005i1-1b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:37:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39883 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB3XO-0007Zm-9N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:37:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB3XB-0007ZY-KP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:37:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB3XA-0007St-L1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:44058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB3X3-0007Qs-Pn; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:37:25 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D96479A; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:37:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC492DEA95; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:37:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83ppaj4afw.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181221 Archived-At: On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:38:11 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:20:40 -0600 > > From: Jacob Bachmeyer > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > Which leads to another idea that I think may have been > > mentioned: Does Emacs have the ability to load C plugins from > > shared objects? > > Why would we need that? We _are_ the Emacs project, so we could > simply make whatever C code is needed part of Emacs. > Well, one reason might be to permit extensions to be written that the Emacs developers didn't think of/aren't part of the main distribution/etc. One might also want to allow a minority of users to have large binary add-ons without forcing *all* users to pay the cost of loading those add-ons in memory. Perl, python and some other systems allow for libraries with native binary components. In some sense, Emacs is a language (elisp) with an editor attached, so the idea isn't *entirely* mad. That said, I'm not sure the case for it is a slam dunk, either. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com