From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:30:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20161020143031.72f02d37@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <83mvi9a3mh.fsf@gnu.org> <20161012165911.58437154@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161012173314.799d1dc5@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <8360owaj2s.fsf@gnu.org> <20161013092701.77461800@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161017105345.2f255760@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83y41nx8l6.fsf@gnu.org> <20161017123459.5ded9408@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <87vawosoul.fsf@elephly.net> <20161019090741.46ea2704@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161019163806.7c77f100@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476988268 27913 195.159.176.226 (20 Oct 2016 18:31:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rekado@elephly.net, jwiegley@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 20:31:03 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bxI6z-0003oW-Df for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:30:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56552 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxI71-0000X7-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:30:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxI6w-0000X2-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxI6v-0005rt-HK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:48259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxI6t-0005rU-Iq; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D1D26D; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:30:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64722DE01E; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:30:32 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208547 Archived-At: On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:15 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote: > > Wayland is on the horizon for Linux. > > Is Wayland tied specifically to Linux? Wayland is sort of an X successor based on much more modern principles. It will run on other free operating systems as well as GNU/Linux. > X doesn't have an infinite > > life ahead of it, it dates from the 1980s and the free OS world > > is working to move past it (thus Wayland). I suspect that simply > > adopting Webkit (which is LGPL already) directly will probably > > fix most potential portability problems, since the Webkit > > people have to support whatever is used on most platforms > > already. > > That seems plausible to me -- provided you really meant "GNU/Linux" > in the first line. I did. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com