From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU Emacs: Client/Server Date: 06 Feb 2004 10:52:17 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040129111259.67CF418B@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <32D82A01-5253-11D8-82BB-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <20040129121313.766CE37D@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040130045855.1A6A92E@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040202092212.C73932E@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040203044651.3E26A31@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040205095216.528FC31@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040206053754.30BFC4B@frontend NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076061229 9367 80.91.224.253 (6 Feb 2004 09:53:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:53:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 10:53:43 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ap2gB-0006ix-00 for ; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:53:43 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ap2gB-0005TD-00 for ; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:53:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2fk-0001Me-Cc for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:53:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2fQ-0001KI-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:52:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2eu-00018E-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2et-000187-QB; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ap2d7-0004vC-OF; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:50:34 -0500 Original-To: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" In-Reply-To: <20040206053754.30BFC4B@frontend3.messagingengine.com> Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19764 "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" writes: > On 05 Feb 2004 10:05:01 -0500, "Stefan Monnier" > said: > > Maybe you know it and you're just experimenting, but I just want to make > > sure you do realize that gnuclient/gnuserver already solve those > > problems, so clearly there isn't much point is creating yet another system. > > What about portability and distribution issues since it is written in C? What about it? > My idea was to write the whole stuff in Elisp and allow Emacs to > handle the platform dependend stuff. with this approach, I can be > sure that where Emacs runs, the client/server code will run with no > extra effort. I'd be surprised if you manage to compile Emacs without a C compiler on any platform. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum