From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs ffi
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:24:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpnmg2lb.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8b9cc15f-a4d7-4666-8491-3e8f8d19e103@m11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com
"laynor@gmail.com" <laynor@gmail.com> writes:
> I've seen SXEmacs has a foreign function interface, any chance it will
> also be in mainstream FSF Emacs?
Yes.
P(FFI in FSF Emacs) = P(somebody ports FFI to FSF Emacs) * P(FFI patch is accepted by FSF Emacs maintainers).
Since you seems interested, and only a programmer would be interested
in FFI, we could evaluate P(somebody ports FFI to FSF Emacs) to be
about 0.7 (you'll tell us).
On the other hand, AFAIK, FSF (ie. RMS) is not to keen to integrate
FFI to Emacs, so I would evaluate: P(FFI patch is accepted by FSF
Emacs maintainers) = 0.1 in the near future.
Total: P(FFI in FSF Emacs) = 0.7 * 0.1 = 0.07
Which is not null.
Moreover, you might not care about RMS's opinion, and be happy with
your port of FFI to GNU emacs. There will probably be other users
happy with your patch too, and some interesting stuff will be
developed with it. Which should increase P(FFI patch is accepted by
FSF Emacs maintainers) eventually.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 23:28 Emacs ffi laynor
2009-07-15 1:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-07-15 6:57 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-15 19:21 ` Maurizio Vitale
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2024-08-12 5:30 as for Calc and the math library arthur miller
2024-08-12 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-12 11:23 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2024-08-12 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-13 5:39 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 4:11 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 14:00 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-14 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 15:08 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-14 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-15 9:31 ` Emacs ffi (was: Re: as for Calc and the math library) Andrea Corallo
2024-08-15 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-15 20:32 ` Emacs ffi Andrea Corallo
[not found] ` <trinity-a24567af-9dc5-4e16-960c-c42d9759f282-1723755762558@3c-app-mailcom-bs05>
2024-08-16 20:07 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-08-16 21:21 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-17 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 9:05 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-17 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 13:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-08-17 14:30 ` Joel Reicher
2024-08-17 17:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-18 4:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-17 15:36 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-18 5:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-17 15:23 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-08-18 13:26 ` Björn Bidar
[not found] ` <87h6birmfy.fsf@>
2024-08-19 16:57 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-19 17:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-17 2:21 ` Emanuel Berg
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