From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NaCl support for Emacs Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:59:24 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87boqcn76b.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87wr976otx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ipkq6yy5.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87boqi6tzz.fsf@linux-hvfx.site> <87ehve3ul8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lipl22xm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87boqh20ha.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871urc46c9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <739bsoysp.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87ty47r5yt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k452p5u3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87liphne9e.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326130495 25981 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2012 17:34:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:34:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 09 18:34:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkJ7R-0001El-S2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:34:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkJ7R-0004Nk-6U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:34:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkIZf-00035D-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:00:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkIZU-0004du-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:59:50 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkIZT-0004dj-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:59:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkIZQ-0005zU-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:59:40 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:59:40 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:59:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yw01o2uFtNQ98LOYmgbd4W9j1RA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:147523 Archived-At: On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:43:58 +0100 Carsten Mattner wrote: CM> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> I'm interested in bringing in support for the NaCl cryptographic library >>> for Emacs, after 24.1 is out.  There is info on NaCl here: >> >> While it might be an interesting feature to provide for future Elisp >> packages, its immediate usefulness is much less obvious, so the kind of >> compile-time linking model we use for things like libgnutls would not be >> appropriate (e.g. Debian wouldn't want to add nacl as a dependency if >> it's not actually used). >> >> OTOH that might be a good motivation to add support for dynamic loading >> of extension libraries. CM> Only if NaCl's "Automatic CPU-specific tuning" can be done at run-time CM> and not only at compile-time. Ted, what's the status with that? If we manage it as a GNU ELPA package with an included tarball, so it's downloaded and compiled locally, sure. But otherwise yeah, it's not so nice. NaCl is a nice library with no community, AFAICT, and that's really my biggest concern about integrating with it. There's no place to propose changes or get updates. Ted