From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How about using static link instead of dynamic loaded dlls? Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 14:28:14 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3EDF129B.6000002@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054819125 8036 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 13:18:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:18:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 15:18:39 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NubA-0001x3-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:16:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19NutF-0000YJ-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:34:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NuO1-00051L-Tw for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 09:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NuKX-00044n-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:58:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NuDr-0001fy-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.165] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NtrO-0001n1-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 3EC6EB6E0021B11D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:28:49 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <3EDF129B.6000002@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:51:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14764 Hi Jason, Jason Rumney writes: > I deliberately avoided making any binary distributed by FSF > dependant on those libraries to avoid the need to deal with these > legal issues, but I tried to do so in a way that does not cripple > the binary we distribute if the user choses to download those DLLs > separately from some other source. Would it be hard to have customizable variables for the DLL names? Than Mike could just set them to the version that works by using a complete path name. Emacs could set the default by searching in $PATH (as I understand the code internally does it now) and nil could mean, that the user doesn't want the feature at all. so long, benny