From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:56:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54B1B97E.9070204@gmail.com> <87fvbhk4ha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54B456C8.6010506@gmail.com> <83ppaj4afw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421125016 4808 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2015 04:56:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 04:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, jcb62281@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 05:56:50 2015 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 1YAtX6-00048X-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:56:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAtX5-0003p2-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAtWs-0003ow-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAtWr-0001Kx-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:56:34 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:27951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAtWl-0001KI-CA; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:56:27 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwPAOwQflS4rwoL/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSQtiB0J1lkBAQEHAQEBAR6QbweESAWLAaQugXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: AjwPAOwQflS4rwoL/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSQtiB0J1lkBAQEHAQEBAR6QbweESAWLAaQugXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="107662673" Original-Received: from 184-175-10-11.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([184.175.10.11]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 12 Jan 2015 23:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5397B660FB; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:56:26 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83ppaj4afw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:38:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:181202 Archived-At: >> Which leads to another idea that I think may have been mentioned: Does >> Emacs have the ability to load C plugins from shared objects? No, not yet, but there's preliminary work for that, and I hope that preliminary work can get included for 25.1, tho I haven't heard much news from it in a while. > Why would we need that? We _are_ the Emacs project, so we could > simply make whatever C code is needed part of Emacs. Because we want Emacs-25.1 to be able to link to libraries which might not yet have been written when 25.1 is released. Stefan