From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: clang vs free software Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:42:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87haa1litl.fsf@yandex.ru> <87y53czx7e.fsf@yandex.ru> <87bo08bivm.fsf_-_@flea.lifelogs.com> <87sitkzahs.fsf@yandex.ru> <52D7DAAB.2070709@yandex.ru> <52D81960.2080408@yandex.ru> <52DA8C17.4080707@yandex.ru> <52DC00E5.3020803@yandex.ru> <52DC6A26.3020003@yandex.ru> <87k3dv9z85.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87eh439w1n.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ha8yqvup.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390315364 21199 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2014 14:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 15:42:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W5cXU-0001l6-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:42:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5cXT-0000dK-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48767) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5cXK-0000Wm-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:42:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5cXJ-0007bj-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:42:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5cXJ-0007be-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:42:41 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5cXI-0000j4-8x; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:42:40 -0500 In-reply-to: <87ha8yqvup.fsf@engster.org> (message from David Engster on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:47:10 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168826 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Fine, but what's the policy now regarding features that require an installed clang to work; can they be merged to Emacs proper or not? Emacs (and all GNU packages involving C code) should be designed to work best with GCC. There should be nothing to encourage users not to use our compiler. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.