From: Alex Corcoles <alex@corcoles.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interest in a Cosmopolitan build?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:16:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfc21b9ce98c1de3ae59d4c0bc93e28b16a73105.camel@corcoles.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.37.1699462824.25818.emacs-devel@gnu.org>
On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 12:00 -0500, emacs-devel-request@gnu.org wrote:
> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Message-ID: <87edh0k2jf.fsf@dataswamp.org>
> Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere
> language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter
> or virtual machine. [1]
> Sounds interesting!
> I wonder how they do that?
If I understand correctly, they found a way to make something that fits
all executable formats that major OSs support, plus they embed a zip
with binaries and dependencies (e.g. parts of /usr/ for Emacs), plus
they even convinced the POSIX stewards to loosen up the definition of
what's an executable. Plus a new libc...
> > Even though Cosmopolitan can be considered controversial
>
> Why is it controversial?
I'm not entirely sure their means to achieve their objectives are
"clean". Also, it's yet another libc. Some people I've discussed the
idea with were a bit hostile towards it.
Cheers,
Álex
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2023-11-08 20:16 ` Alex Corcoles [this message]
2023-11-10 2:52 ` Interest in a Cosmopolitan build? Richard Stallman
2023-11-10 10:10 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-07 21:23 Alex Corcoles
2023-11-08 9:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-11-08 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 14:54 ` Björn Bidar
2023-11-08 20:11 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-09 0:00 ` Po Lu
2023-11-09 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 8:32 ` Po Lu
2023-11-09 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:02 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-09 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-09 10:56 ` Alex Corcoles
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