From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code - some ideas Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:26:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2tmxvz5.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366655206 18555 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2013 18:26:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Aur=C3=A9lien?= Aptel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 22 20:26:49 2013 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 1UULRx-0005B5-97 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:26:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UULRw-0002G4-PW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UULRt-0002EH-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UULRs-0007PF-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:26:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:52431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UULRs-0007Ou-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:26:44 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLO00I0059Z7600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:26:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLO00H3Z5WI4GU0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:26:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:159130 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:51:55 +0200 > From: Aur=C3=A9lien Aptel > Cc: Emacs development discussions >=20 > I understand. My project could then be: >=20 > - add support for compiled modules > - rewrite libxml2 and libgnutls as modules libxml2 and GnuTLS are projects, not just libraries developed by Emac= s in-house. Rewriting them is probably a terrible waste of resources. Perhaps you meant to write some kind of wrapper for them (if that is needed, though I cannot see why). Why isn't dynamic loading the solution we want?