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From: Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs ffi
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:57:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz1ebfhy.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b9cc15f-a4d7-4666-8491-3e8f8d19e103@m11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>

At Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:28:49 -0700 (PDT),
"laynor@gmail.com" <laynor@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've seen SXEmacs has a foreign function interface, any chance it will
> also be in mainstream FSF Emacs?

RMS doesn't like it because it would allow to link emacs with non-free
binary code. This leads to many possible licensing problems with
regard to the GPL that RMS wants to avoid. We already have a similar
situation with the Linux kernel. Search the emacs-devel archives for
some discussions about this, e.g.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00398.html

The pragmatic me would also very much like to see a FFI in GNU Emacs,
but it's also a political issue, unfortunately.

HTH, 

Anselm


-- 
Anselm Helbig 
mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-15  6:57 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
2009-07-15  6:57 ` Anselm Helbig [this message]
2009-07-15 19:21   ` Maurizio Vitale
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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