From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "Aurélien Aptel" <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: FFI in Emacs
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:47:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qxbok4gvvc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5B0FNOy8HXkrKXv=o3PhN2jOF++gv8czKST6Zuy+jz7=E5gw@mail.gmail.com> ("Aurélien Aptel"'s message of "Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:36:14 +0200")
Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> All in all, FFI is a really cool feature. The only real problem is
> that some people (and particularly Dr. Stallman) think that a FFI
> might lead to the development of proprietary plugins.
This aspect was resolved years ago.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00240.html
We gave GCC a plug-in interface last year, after developing a method
to make it safer. So now it is ok to do this in Emacs as well.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Dynamic-Plug_002dIn-Interfaces.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-27 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-27 23:36 FFI in Emacs Aurélien Aptel
2012-06-27 23:47 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-06-28 0:03 ` John Wiegley
2012-06-28 2:12 ` Glenn Morris
2012-06-28 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-28 4:51 ` John Wiegley
2012-06-28 15:27 ` Nix
2012-07-11 5:24 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-11 5:53 ` Helmut Eller
2012-07-11 6:43 ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-11 14:04 ` Burton Samograd
2012-07-11 14:07 ` Burton Samograd
2012-07-11 7:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-07-11 7:44 ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-11 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-11 17:08 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-11 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-11 18:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-07-11 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-11 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-12 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-12 17:01 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-12 18:54 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-12 23:19 ` Sam Steingold
2012-07-13 2:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-07-13 3:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-28 6:20 ` joakim
2012-07-11 9:40 ` joakim
2012-08-25 17:25 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-25 18:20 ` joakim
2012-08-26 8:57 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-08-26 13:11 ` joakim
2013-03-12 19:16 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-03-12 21:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-12 22:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-03-13 7:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-03-12 22:53 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-03-13 0:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-03-13 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-22 19:44 ` BT Templeton
2013-03-23 1:51 ` Leo Liu
2013-03-23 2:04 ` Noah Lavine
2013-03-23 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-23 18:33 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
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