From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:08:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83lhb26eb9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737xf9je9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0fm0j3.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kusx8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445008689 26282 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2015 15:18:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ludo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 17:18:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn6lb-00047g-8Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:17:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn6la-0007fd-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60043) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn6cw-0007SZ-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn6cv-0000XD-KE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:55593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn6cr-0000Uk-Pq; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWB00A00J3RCE00@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:04:51 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWB00566J83VF40@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:04:51 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87r3kusx8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191761 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:29:00 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > >> This needs an overhaul of GUILE's string handling (which delegat= es > >> parts of it to helper libraries, some of those being under contr= ol of > >> GNU, some not). > > > > String handling is partly delegated to GNU libunistring. There= =E2=80=99s no > > other library involved. >=20 > What about libiconv? It would appear that parts of it are in the G= UILE > source tree (admittedly, under GNU control). libunistring calls libiconv.