From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 10:08:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83fum6oir3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <047a67ec-9e29-7e4e-0fb0-24c3e59b5886@dancol.org> <83zikjxt1j.fsf@gnu.org> <727ccd66-3bc3-2a41-7d1d-ef6dae9f0d1e@dancol.org> <7A914757-B1A4-4EEE-9DF0-68EFDDA9A5DB@autodesk.com> <83k2bmxju3.fsf@gnu.org> <837f7mrvq8.fsf@gnu.org> <8337i7plje.fsf@gnu.org> <20C103E2-3F41-4746-A146-61BFE5283D9A@raeburn.org> <9b1a595e-92a6-80ed-10ab-0ea2741ba4a0@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480666188 15379 195.159.176.226 (2 Dec 2016 08:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 08:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, raeburn@raeburn.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 09:09:40 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 1cCiuZ-0002Bv-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 09:09:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCiua-0006hk-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCitp-0006hf-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCitk-0005FM-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:08:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36890) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCitk-0005FI-9i; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:08:48 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1204 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cCita-0001rM-PH; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:08:39 -0500 In-reply-to: <9b1a595e-92a6-80ed-10ab-0ea2741ba4a0@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Thu, 1 Dec 2016 20:41:47 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:209907 Archived-At: > Cc: rms@gnu.org, jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Daniel Colascione > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 20:41:47 -0800 > > Of course all of this work isn't in C and doesn't require specialized > skills, right? It does. We also make additions in C in other areas. The differences between this and other C changes, and your proposed dumper, as was already written several times, are: . there's no Lisp-level alternative for them . these changes are mostly a one-time job, and the probability of them to be actively maintained is very low, if not zero