From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FFI Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:52:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87vdbn8s8j.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <87sk6tonv8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20100418053925.GA7294@tomas> <878w8lb2s0.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <8739yt9nks.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <878w8k8q57.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <868w8kosie.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271685358 18506 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2010 13:55:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:55:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Zajcev Evgeny , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 19 15:55:53 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3rRc-0006Qt-H7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:55:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36635 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3rQq-0004fP-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:54:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O3rOy-00045G-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53533 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3rOr-00041N-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3rOc-0005uV-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:52:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ka.mail.enyo.de ([87.106.162.201]:44132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3rOc-0005tw-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.17.135.4] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by ka.mail.enyo.de with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) id 1O3rOW-0000Qv-GN; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:52:12 +0200 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1O3rOW-0003j5-9W; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:52:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:49:12 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123878 Archived-At: * Stefan Monnier: >> my interest is to have compatible FFI in GNU Emacs and (S)XEmacs (at >> least on high level, read lisp level), so two communities could reuse >> bindings. > > That's fine by me. The main problem here is to figure out if and how we > can support FFIs, not from a technical standpoint but from > a legal/political standpoint. Until recently RMS's word on it was just > "no way", but there's hope we can do something like what GCC does. > > So, for now, we're just waiting for the word of the FSF's legal > adviser(s?). Don't hold your breath. But we'll be sure to get in touch > if/when it turns out we can finally add an FFI. Uh-oh. SQLite support will bring in some sort of FFI as well, albeit rather indirectly, so I guess that means it's not possible to add it until that is settled. 8-(