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: master bdb13a0e5c5 1/2: Adjust to =?utf-8?Q?Gnulib=E2=80=99s?= recent module renaming Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:42:42 +0200 Message-ID: <86a5c8iejh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86a5c9jf88.fsf@gnu.org> <6414b78b-ff06-4d51-9bc4-b36799343fe1@cs.ucla.edu> <86ldvthsaq.fsf@gnu.org> <56f525ed-4540-4fd8-b563-7ea1fbd65064@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15827"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 07:43:35 2025 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 1tTbPD-0003zd-0Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:43:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTbOS-0003C2-WC; Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:42:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTbOP-0003Bd-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:42:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTbOP-0003vO-38; Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:42:45 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=/UWBvb1zqswYfutcSmPM1fDz9eSVZl57T1gBcYsjVnQ=; b=WIWaOqBgDkjm6km/157Q KgEcPY9HewCTLCQ/OXG6KVxIsyJWY1seWzXaPye8OLXWDfu/b7SHLw/x1qWE3IW2CC5IGl/CZbmAn tIztBAD/c95SKaE8nKMwJKE87eyv4xUU1A08RwQF8YuQi1Pg+SK1xhlx0XsCtCJBs3CNNgoaJxmaQ nq3R1FW23i+2L3nvYMw6YVRt3Hl/3W5sY8sWaj2l/WTgggRjSSq/3IsfJ45xs5QXItHWa0u596TM+ 3reQCxyZpQRHyrb8Mv84B8MDuPmcRw+yrhg6pHEDTKyKpiOcqLWCURPOhbprDOIIZPA78VvOZkRMA WU/0PrBO+SnUlQ==; In-Reply-To: <56f525ed-4540-4fd8-b563-7ea1fbd65064@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 2 Jan 2025 13:15:51 -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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:327611 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 13:15:51 -0800 > Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > > > Gnulib is a general-purpose library, so it cannot use some of > > the enhanced functionality we use in Emacs because we have intimate > > knowledge of what Emacs needs and which functionalities it actually > > uses. For example, the emulation of pselect is tightly coupled to > > what Emacs uses it for. > > That's understandable, and I wasn't suggesting that we migrate all of > Emacs's stuff into Gnulib. All I was thinking is that Emacs could use > lib/config.mk.in unchanged, even when Emacs is being built on > MS-Windows. (Admittedly this is not a project I could help much with.) Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how that could be done. If we cannot use some Gnulib functionality on Windows, we cannot possibly use and compile the corresponding module, can we? Or what am I missing? Could you elaborate on what you had in mind?