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: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:56:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83k0g7l4zb.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> <83ee6gmywm.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18492"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, tom@logand.com, galex-713@galex-713.eu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 14 13:58:29 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 1mx7O0-0004cF-Au for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:58:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41630 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mx7Nz-0003ix-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:58:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mx7MM-0001uk-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=36950 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 1mx7ML-0006pv-HT; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:56:45 -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=49LlBBdIehyk455Ymmgxi7X5yUMgfGVdsE1wuKvJFjo=; b=X+v9c9R2jsyp 5Uc9x1BV30JimY++dp0Cw9lauUjuX49XU3d0hGc7NnEY9lyUxqictDEpNJDUXCVd41AM/zmCrw4DA XwKsWJMcZq5Girgm4igiPLmmIS9hXkfXUvzQleEsfbZsalveackxPZHrZoYlHQfpitYqNsrdU62Qh cgOJ1MNMBLS7CBoYr9IiOdOIa/u0ugXwJa9pguguNzAY15MmahAn7IWI9ZNsrxLnADmNkHkGs/fb+ nJq3PGpz4swnPkCkQa0Br0z7Lodb5fz4Q3/Wdy6XxRL7dk3YnxxBxHN91hZlYMG+MuSQLg1kpMSdb deCW0TFQ2tLLkLpwexYHpQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3564 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 1mx7MJ-0002Wh-Gi; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:56:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:13:25 -0500) 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:281892 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, galex-713@galex-713.eu, tom@logand.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:13:25 -0500 > > If we really want a feature to be in the core, then we don't want to > make it a dynamic module. > > However, it can happen that we want to support a feature with C code > but we don't want it to add to the complexity of core Emacs. I cannot imagine how such a situation could arise, really. And in all my long involvement with Emacs development it didn't happen yet. Which suggests that it's probably a theoretical possibility, but a real situation we need to deal with. And the module interface was designed to not require _any_ support from Emacs to be able to add a module, so I'm quite sure this won't happen.