From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C file recoginzed as image file Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:48:59 +0100 Message-ID: <45A3650B.80504@gmail.com> References: <45A2D32A.8020804@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168336174 18070 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 09:49:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dooglus@gmail.com, lekktu@gmail.com, c.a.rendle@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 10:49:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4Dbh-0007y1-87 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:49:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4Dbg-00011p-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:49:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4DbM-0000zh-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4DbJ-0000vd-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4DbJ-0000up-2e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H4DbG-0006Vs-GZ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:61263 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H4DbE-0005gT-5y; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:48:57 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0701-6, 2007-01-08), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1H4DbE-0005gT-5y. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1H4DbE-0005gT-5y e6e7fd2cb5e4a562fd8067fb82832903 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65047 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Shouldn't we use > libraries that are already there on the platform (if that is possible) > to make this easier? > > I do not understand what this suggestion means. I would > like to understand. > > Could you please explain more clearly what you are advocating, and > also, what the alternative is which you are arguing against? Then I am beginning to think that this might be a problem only on w32. On w32 we are not using image libraries that are available from MS Windows. Instead we are using libraries from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. Installation of these libraries can be done by the user or they may come with a package together with Emacs. For example I currently distribute these with my prebuilt binaries. Whichever way it is done it puts a new burdon on the user who have to look for security updates to these image libraries and somehow update them in case of a security problem with them. And in addition to this there might be a long delay before the libraries are updated in gnuwin32. As I said above I guess (but do not know) that Emacs on GNU/Linux uses the image libraries that comes with the OS. That avoids the problems I have sketched above. I think we should strive to do the same on other OS:es (for example w32) too. How to technically achieve this is another question.