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: Google Summer of Code - some ideas Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:23:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83li8ay0jf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366687426 6536 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2013 03:23:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 23 05:23:50 2013 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 1UUTpa-0005hQ-T8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:23:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUTpa-0005Lu-53 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:23:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUTpX-0005Lo-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUTpW-0002te-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:9908) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUTpV-0002tQ-Hm; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:23:41 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpYYW/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDRABE4geBsEtji6CXAOkeoFegmop X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpYYW/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDRABE4geBsEtji6CXAOkeoFegmop X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="8027813" Original-Received: from 69-165-134-22.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.134.22]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 22 Apr 2013 23:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 53EAA67A49; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:23:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83li8ay0jf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:48:04 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:159141 Archived-At: >> Things like libxml2 and libgnutls should use such a mechanism instead of >> the one they use currently. > Would loading them dynamically with dlopen and dlsym, similar to what > the MS-Windows build does now, be good enough? Depends what you mean by "good enough". By "should" above I meant that it would be a good basic test of the capability of a new FFI. Stefan