From: "Aurélien Aptel" <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code - some ideas
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:51:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+5B0FOf1OTgbB1rU9SRzbDwqaMN4j_+M=y9XuiC6ZFaTYjq8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvli8a7i5y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> I say possibly because the more I look into into the more I realize
>> it's not really helpful for complex stuff and simple stuff are easy to
>> do with a module.
>
> Things like libxml2 and libgnutls should use such a mechanism instead of
> the one they use currently.
I agree.
> Adding support for other libraries is problematic currently, so I'd
> rather try and avoid it until we have something like an FFI, so that we
> can add libraries without having to recompile Emacs.
I understand. My project could then be:
- add support for compiled modules
- rewrite libxml2 and libgnutls as modules
- complete GIR implementation
It looks like a lot of work so I can't guarantee I'll be done by the
end of the summer but I'll surely be closer to the end than the start
:)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-22 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-21 16:46 Google Summer of Code - some ideas Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 17:16 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 17:25 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 17:53 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 23:05 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 18:34 ` joakim
2013-04-22 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-22 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-23 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-22 17:51 ` Aurélien Aptel [this message]
2013-04-22 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 20:16 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-04-22 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 20:39 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-04-23 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-23 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 15:52 ` Lennart Borgman
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