From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FFI in Emacs Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:44:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87mx36bv2l.fsf@gmx.de> References: <877gua6a6n.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341992711 15202 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2012 07:45:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 11 09:45:11 2012 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 1Sorbi-0003a1-A8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:45:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sorbh-0004Kh-Bo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sorbe-0004IK-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SorbZ-0000f6-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:43025) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SorbZ-0000eo-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:45:01 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2012 07:44:58 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB9387.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.147.135] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2012 09:44:58 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Xq5wnofaXEzA0yWnI5VTjG6dw03PIje4yc7mp4o MOmD63GNfjuBja In-Reply-To: <877gua6a6n.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:14:56 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 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:151528 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > SXEmacs' implementation is about 5 years old, I believe, so the bugs > should be pretty well worked out. It's not as elaborate as Python's > ctypes, but quite usable. When I rewrote dbusbind.c into Lisp, using SXEmacs' FFI interface, I didn't find it very comfortable. Maybe due to lack of documentation, maybe (more likely) due to my stupidness. Besides of this, I did succeed. The SXEmacs guys seem to have replaced (?) this by dynamic modules. But this new feature doesn't fly yet, as I have experienced recently. However, looks interesting. Best regards, Michael.