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: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules Date: 31 Jul 2003 09:56:51 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87wue0i51a.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> <87n0evnxp8.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059638332 17279 80.91.224.249 (31 Jul 2003 07:58:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mario Lang , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 09:58:51 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 19i8Kp-0004UY-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:58:51 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19i8NA-000129-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:01:16 +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 19i8Kk-0003zp-Au for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19i8KJ-0003q0-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19i8J9-0003GZ-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from pd9509d98.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.80.157.152] helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19i8J2-0003Dn-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h6V7urWg009783 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:56:54 +0200 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h6V7upCw009779; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:56:51 +0200 Original-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" In-Reply-To: <87n0evnxp8.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Original-Lines: 19 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:15749 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15749 "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > >>>>> "Mario" == Mario Lang writes: > > Mario> Emacs is my favourite User Interface, so I'd like to > Mario> eventually make those bindings available to elisp. > > XEmacs supports dynamically loadable extension modules (currently in > the trunk LDAP and PostgreSQL are normally built as modules), and > the facility is under active development. We are currently working > on extending the facility to the Windows environment. Should the model lend itself to Emacs easily, or are there specialities involved with the memory organization/garbage collection/call semantics and whatever else would sound like it was heavily dependent on the specifics of internals? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum