From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:00:22 +0200 Message-ID: <9b41d48c93314b0c6799e1e979d06615@swipnet.se> References: <7dbe73ed05032703218114182@mail.gmail.com> <01c53303$Blat.v2.4$a73df0a0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111954500 25732 80.91.229.2 (27 Mar 2005 20:15:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 27 22:14:57 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFe9T-00041e-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:14:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFePQ-0008CA-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:30:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFeO8-0007Q1-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:29:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFeNy-0007KG-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFeNx-0007ED-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:29:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.70] (helo=mxfep01.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DFdvw-00075p-HU; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:00:28 -0500 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.210] [83.226.180.210]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050327200024.TEHR25559.mxfep01.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:00:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <01c53303$Blat.v2.4$a73df0a0@zahav.net.il> Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) 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:35238 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35238 >> it has already been decided that Emacs will not get a >> generic interface to call binary modules, in order not to make it >> legally feasible to employ it as a tightly coupled component in >> basically unfree systems. > > Richard will have the definitive answer, but I don't think this > applies to standard components of the OS. But how can you tell if an object is a standard component in the OS or not? AFAIK anybody can make ActiveX/COM-objects. Much like shared libraries on Unix. Jan D.