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: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:46:28 +0300 Message-ID: <86y152ge0b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <864j7qhup6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a5hi0yts.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="25026"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 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 Mon Aug 12 13:47:35 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 1sdTWQ-0006LJ-De for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:47:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sdTVa-0006ov-8V; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:46:42 -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 1sdTVQ-0006mO-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:46:34 -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 1sdTVQ-0007U3-1Y; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:46:32 -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=LMipsVkDlGNxg7N0E4LaIHxW0CkqMe1Tj8PBd3YDlAM=; b=ceweRvGdweUxX7dTtl2p TVuuuACE4scgC5pLf1Oxak/05KQzj8J257rLR+fW8BZtka73HkhmUjLdwh3QbG5NiAJ5zJhpeAO5s GFGe+ebu9u7yMX1rQE92ksHXVDsEXYXHiNVbGR3A99cKWX6hwvoEu0T3Oc9gODxUDoegMgDOTWGMO R1yPXIzGIOQ+T4dkvO9xYAJ3LDtOTn/FJDcK4QJzbeq3GATLaUaeoSyWrhK28vYWNlmlXdyVGWvhm 1bzjR0S+nAPto+0XfGNY/MQm7415V4yXWM5AWVrT6y7wFaoocUMnoKkIBvc6aIpi7TfqTPoqYQiOm 0s0+Rg99YKo52g==; In-Reply-To: <87a5hi0yts.fsf@valhala.localdomain> (message from Nicolas Martyanoff on Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:23:27 +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:322669 Archived-At: > From: Nicolas Martyanoff > Cc: arthur miller , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:23:27 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: arthur miller > >> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 05:30:08 +0000 > >> > >> Even better, given people proper FFI so they can import and use any of the tens > >> or hundreds of quality math libraries available. > > > > Not going to happen, and you know it. > > Naïve question, why? Because providing FFI would allow using non-free libraries in Emacs. We made the effort to allow loading dynamic modules precisely for this reason: to allow free libraries to be used, but not non-free ones.