From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:02:27 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F281643.8060603@yahoo.com> References: <87wue0i51a.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> <871xw8i3tr.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059593178 2088 80.91.224.249 (30 Jul 2003 19:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 30 21:26:10 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 19hwTj-0008LQ-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:19:15 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19hwVo-0001Y0-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:21:24 +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 19hwS7-0005Fj-Vn for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19hwRo-0004sI-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19hwRc-0004aD-Bn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:17:04 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19hwRX-0004M9-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19hwMH-0007gB-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:11:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19hwDF-0006pq-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:02:13 +0200 Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us 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:15743 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15743 Nic wrote: > Mario Lang writes: >>Is there any chance that we get the dynloading extention >>for 21.4? If not, could you please explain why? > > I think rms made a statement on this subject a number of months > ago. The reason dynamic loading has not been included in emacs so far > is that there would then be the potential of breaking the terms of > the licence under which emacs is distributed. > > The GPL requires all code linked to emacs to also be Free. If > dynamic linking was allowed that couldn't be gauranteed. But Emacs already has the ability, built into it, to run non-Free software: the Lisp interpreter. -- Kevin Rodgers