From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, Zajcev Evgeny <lg.zevlg@gmail.com>,
joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FFI
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:52:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdbn8s8j.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4oj7d07h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:49:12 -0400")
* Stefan Monnier:
>> my interest is to have compatible FFI in GNU Emacs and (S)XEmacs (at
>> least on high level, read lisp level), so two communities could reuse
>> bindings.
>
> That's fine by me. The main problem here is to figure out if and how we
> can support FFIs, not from a technical standpoint but from
> a legal/political standpoint. Until recently RMS's word on it was just
> "no way", but there's hope we can do something like what GCC does.
>
> So, for now, we're just waiting for the word of the FSF's legal
> adviser(s?). Don't hold your breath. But we'll be sure to get in touch
> if/when it turns out we can finally add an FFI.
Uh-oh. SQLite support will bring in some sort of FFI as well, albeit
rather indirectly, so I guess that means it's not possible to add it
until that is settled. 8-(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-19 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-17 19:55 Embedding SQLite Florian Weimer
2010-04-17 21:58 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-04-18 3:21 ` John Wiegley
2010-04-18 3:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-18 5:39 ` tomas
2010-04-18 6:43 ` joakim
2010-04-18 8:09 ` FFI (was: Embedding SQLite) Juri Linkov
2010-04-18 8:22 ` FFI Florian Weimer
2010-04-18 18:53 ` FFI Zajcev Evgeny
2010-04-18 20:25 ` FFI Florian Weimer
2010-04-19 6:39 ` FFI Zajcev Evgeny
2010-04-19 7:31 ` FFI joakim
2010-04-19 8:33 ` FFI Zajcev Evgeny
2010-04-19 7:44 ` telepathy (was: FFI) Michael Albinus
2010-04-19 8:25 ` telepathy Zajcev Evgeny
2010-04-19 8:56 ` telepathy Michael Albinus
2010-04-20 2:28 ` telepathy (was: FFI) Jan Moringen
2010-04-20 7:15 ` telepathy Zajcev Evgeny
2010-04-20 8:26 ` telepathy Michael Albinus
2010-04-21 2:00 ` telepathy Jan Moringen
[not found] ` <jwv4oj7d07h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2010-04-19 13:52 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2010-04-19 8:43 ` FFI Andreas Schwab
2010-04-18 6:53 ` Embedding SQLite Florian Weimer
2010-04-18 9:33 ` Leo
[not found] ` <jwvy6gked8g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2010-04-18 20:23 ` Florian Weimer
2010-04-19 18:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
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