Re: as for Calc and the math library

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Nicolas Martyanoff <nicolas@n16f.net>
> Cc: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>  nicolas@n16f.net,  arthur.miller@live.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:40:41 +0200
> 
> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Another question is of course why something like Tom's FFI must be made
> > part of Emacs when, AFIU, it could be a package like vterm which also
> > contains an Emacs module.
> 
> This is what I had in mind when I suggested a dynamic module using
> libffi (apparently exactly what this emacs-ffi does) . I do not see the
> point in trying to get this kind of module included in Emacs since it is
> obviously not wanted here.
> 
> Just distribute it as a package and be done with it. People wanting to
> use it will just add it as a dependency.

Perfectly fine.  Then people who do that will be responsible for
making sure the libraries they load are compatible, license-wise, with
the emacs-ffi module (whose license is not explicitly stated, btw,
AFAICT).