From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2 Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:36:59 +0800 Message-ID: <4C85892B.5080105@gnu.org> References: <8A20526E-44B3-4434-9D40-54A36F976CD6@mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283819854 17977 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2010 00:37:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:37:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 02:37:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsmBo-0001rK-TK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:37:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40557 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsmBo-0005wB-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:37:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52255 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsmBi-0005w6-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsmBh-0006wz-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-px0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:52823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsmBh-0006wq-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: by pxi5 with SMTP id 5so2288289pxi.0 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:37:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EGERzeeE2W8AYmV4s0rX6OTPiFlp0yKZtFVkpzb9s6o=; b=FXfrfSbEM9yXeHw5fZTNYyR0hbGSmM7K53N9hUQk8dLFkuwX2G/TsM0XbdeXY8sqHl O8ZXvZKzJOJNju5pwGpgutagEn0ICUH11DfckMQqcvNGRsdvkDeCqZoQc6gtqGZDrubN jVwhvhm2FoOWuc7JqMht+oTO/hZWpYtgLWgLk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TeQVhs2a4YFPJ11TEvEbdZlEdgYdDSNzq3nMjqcqcf4fzyUmHcr096zInbodqJvD1V KtefuakNAviwuRWf1NJrkZ6t7+FPyINwiBHwWxjRiwgC+xPnlG3hAZUwz8fHAJpUXbOm wz8Oi70ymdlCVgCZ++UQDsTI0ohUpVxHhmIG4= Original-Received: by 10.114.24.1 with SMTP id 1mr2477828wax.124.1283819843578; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.1.1.54] ([61.4.103.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x9sm12344432waj.15.2010.09.06.17.37.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:37:22 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129734 Archived-At: On 07/09/2010 03:17, joakim@verona.se wrote: > We dont need a generic FFI to link with libxml2, so thats not hindering > adoption. What we would need is an interface specification for xml > parsing in Emacs, and a specific implementation for libxml2. > > The problem is rather that adding more dependencies complicates > maintenance of Emacs, and that maintaining a process buffer style > interface is perceived as simpler. Given that sentiment, strong > arguments needs to be presented in favour of in-process handling. > libxml2 is already linked if librsvg is being linked, so it isn't even an additional dependency.