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: as for Calc and the math library Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:49:57 +0300 Message-ID: <86h6bn88h6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <864j7qhup6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a5hi0yts.fsf@valhala.localdomain> <86y152ge0b.fsf@gnu.org> <86jzgjfwqp.fsf@gnu.org> <87sev78arx.fsf@gmail.com> <87le0z6uc6.fsf@valhala.localdomain> 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="8224"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, suhailsingh247@gmail.com, nicolas@n16f.net, arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Martyanoff Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 14 16:50:39 2024 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 1seFKg-0001xj-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:50:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1seFKJ-0005sm-OP; Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:50:15 -0400 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 1seFKI-0005sb-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:50:14 -0400 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 1seFKH-0008Ns-SI; Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:50:13 -0400 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=EFGGCi9l+Ou2uD3PAg4c0lSoDH/6oFo1nmn6RW0Gq9E=; b=JW+CaHB0G1TzSGfTXu2v HFKyw+ShgzXSSHMDhCto2t91o/XeIoDD+zD7Sd6kPUwfk5/xGaxZfQ1raCIltBIZwVw+CNeOr37iP IzxWyJJFNdSGyhwS8vCfulh0lHNeFqtOwvSNdjVPr/FTehivg9BbUmL+VKJp+EGiYuzVTEmw3Ceiw 5yru6JFFw23l34PJ6R6xobaYwtlOwx2gNF2rQn/1h58vm5xHcRkxsVoifqoITREGZkpq6nKzqAm+x neGTSfMTtFqtMDGGsjxuGtUt9tKvzBLpEA40/ADiW+6ZUzZCnPqItTbBLO/V+apUK+d9nFjg86HaB 2w3dCyqSskGrng==; In-Reply-To: <87le0z6uc6.fsf@valhala.localdomain> (message from Nicolas Martyanoff on Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:40:41 +0200) 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:322750 Archived-At: > From: Nicolas Martyanoff > Cc: Suhail Singh , Eli Zaretskii , > nicolas@n16f.net, arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:40:41 +0200 > > Gerd Möllmann 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).