From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: persistent data feature Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:12:41 +0200 Message-ID: <83ee6gmywm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tufmjyai.fsf@gnus.org> <87bl1olyhr.fsf@localhost> <87bl1ngnj1.fsf@logand.com> <3437406.lxAJRBJNBK@galex-713.eu> <875yrvgchu.fsf@logand.com> <83sfuyq4oo.fsf@gnu.org> <83o85kn0b9.fsf@gnu.org> <87lf0ovep9.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23936"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, galex-713@galex-713.eu, tom@logand.com To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 13 14:14:57 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mwlAP-0005wZ-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:14:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53850 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mwlAO-0003Zp-4W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mwl8d-0001zB-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:13:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=58788 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mwl8c-0005XX-Gk; Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:13:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=7DM8T5AW3a/HSODOrYAeh2IDwj3xL/7w/9ilsimhDYM=; b=fNdIOuBqAoNG oN/Cf0hGQWxgDCDk4Nrz3meFmQjPV4qv2DBo55kMtj/3ktdLbdmGxJvAUE1RcH820ZmDnU6FoLeBW BZY2T9DDkAYSP4lLG+WuB0QeoMUSVmnnmz13bl4XLqZSzOhW4oZmrR10eBtlGobeC6V6boR9E7vzp WM0QwKaVFX0RVl8wMEnMOIza+r+4VJRCJTLqlwEYuS1fV1DBz9HWd/abgT5G/d1Q3bGFWstBidb1Y u7XnS7frHG4bLYV8zmEOeqHtvEBEZjf67OelG79lZDaMxWvFcHf/GuPHnjOkvh+usoGdSh1w8+sM4 EVENeFbwfYQQiGCMLSLL8w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3509 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mwl8I-0004DQ-Om; Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:12:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87lf0ovep9.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:04:18 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:281845 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: rms@gnu.org, galex-713@galex-713.eu, tom@logand.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:04:18 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Once again, (1) and (3) are the same. I think nowadays people prefer > > shared libraries for reasons of system maintenance, and its infeasible > > to try to force users or distros to use only static linking (nor do I > > see any reasons for that, either technical or political, as long as we > > are talking about Free Software anyway). > > I think RMS may have meant the dynamic module support which exists in > Emacs. In that case, it's a misunderstanding and a tangent in the context of this discussion. We don't use sqlite3 via a dynamic module, and I personally think it would be wrong for Emacs to provide _any_ core feature through modules -- doing so just adds complexity for no good reason.