From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,
joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:37:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iq4ltal2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinOBburOXSa1x_JynkUxl-zwsSLUtO5Roh7J8g_@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:25:05 -0400
> From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,
> joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
>
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> >>
> >> In that case, couldn't we just convert our base code to C++, then we
> >> could use wxWidgets.
> >
> > Maybe Lennart will volunteer for that job.
>
> Bjarne Stroustrup pretty much beat Lennart to it. It is mostly a
> project decision to invoke the C++ rather than the C compiler.
Compiling ANSI C sources with a C++ compiler is a relatively trivial
job. Most of the work is elsewhere: you need to actually use C++
features in order to compile and link against wxWidgets, see their
documentation for details. And that would involve solving all kinds
of potential incompatibilities, like the complex games we play with
memory allocation, including, but not limited to, relocating buffers
and strings behind the app's back, allocating off the pure space, etc.
I don't think a C++ Emacs will fly without a private implementation of
`new' and friends, for example.
And then we will need to figure out the possible incompatibilities
with other toolkits, whose sources we don't own and don't control.
So please don't try to pretend this as an easy decision and easy job.
It's not. It's not impossible, of course; it just takes motivated
individuals and enough time. If you are stepping forward, by all
means, describe your plan and let's discuss it.
> The gcc project recently took the plunge:
I wish Emacs was as simple a project as GCC and had so many developers
per area of expertise.
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Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-08 5:31 Efforts to attract more users? Ken Hori
2010-07-08 7:44 ` joakim
2010-07-08 13:28 ` Adrian Robert
2010-07-08 14:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-08 14:53 ` Stuart Hacking
2010-07-09 21:46 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-09 22:52 ` Christoph
2010-07-09 23:53 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-10 14:51 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-10 14:55 ` Christoph
2010-07-08 15:09 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-07-08 13:54 ` Stuart Hacking
2010-07-09 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-09 3:24 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-09 15:01 ` Stephen Eilert
2010-07-09 20:25 ` Rolando Pereira
2010-07-09 7:26 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-07-09 11:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 7:31 ` christian.lynbech
2010-07-09 11:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 11:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-09 11:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 12:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-09 13:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 16:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-09 16:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 17:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-09 17:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 17:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-09 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 0:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-10 19:15 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 2:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-10 0:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-10 0:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-10 0:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-10 0:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-10 23:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-11 2:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 2:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-11 3:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-12 0:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-12 1:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-12 7:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-12 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 12:37 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-12 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 8:21 ` David Kastrup
2010-07-12 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 8:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-12 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 8:38 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-12 8:53 ` David Kastrup
2010-07-09 7:33 ` Emacs learning curve (was Re: Efforts to attract more users?) christian.lynbech
2010-07-09 7:43 ` Emacs learning curve Masatake YAMATO
2010-07-09 11:01 ` Efforts to attract more users? Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 4:37 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-11 10:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 13:24 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-11 13:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 13:59 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-11 14:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 15:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-07-11 15:31 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-11 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 21:25 ` John Yates
2010-07-12 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-07-12 12:36 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-12 12:47 ` Stephen Eilert
2010-07-12 16:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-12 17:25 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-12 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-13 1:33 ` Why not Qt4? (hi, Drew! was: Efforts to attract more users?) Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-13 2:37 ` Efforts to attract more users? Miles Bader
2010-07-13 13:51 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-13 13:56 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-13 15:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-07-13 15:52 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-13 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-13 15:24 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-12 0:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 14:52 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-11 15:49 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-12 0:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-12 9:42 ` joakim
2010-07-09 12:05 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2010-07-09 12:23 ` Alex Ott
2010-07-09 14:33 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-07-12 1:57 ` CEDET speed issues [was Re: Efforts to attract more users?] Eric M. Ludlam
2010-07-09 15:39 ` Efforts to attract more users? Leo
2010-07-10 19:05 ` Tom Tromey
2010-07-08 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-08 23:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-08 23:56 ` Fren Zeee
2010-07-09 0:22 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-08-02 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-02 13:32 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-08-02 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-02 20:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-02 20:39 ` Jay Belanger
2010-08-03 6:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-03 8:11 ` Stuart Hacking
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