From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: obby Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 05:13:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873abbr4hp.fsf@hagelb.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242206030 23030 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2009 09:13:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:13:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jtk@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, phil@hagelb.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 13 11:13:40 2009 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 4.50) id 1M4AWw-0001tJ-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 11:13:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54956 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M4AWu-0006jP-R4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4AWo-0006jG-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:13:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4AWj-0006j4-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:13:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45335 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M4AWj-0006iu-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39638) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M4AWj-0004EM-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1M4AWi-0005DE-B3; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:13:24 -0400 In-reply-to: (joakim@verona.se) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:110848 Archived-At: Another aproach I was thinking of was writing some kind of plugin for the Swig wrapper generator for elisp. The idea is that Swig would be persuaded to generate C stubs and low-level elisp api:s from a C library .h file, like Swig already does for Java, Python and so on. I think this aproach would both be fairly convenient(not as convenient as dynamic linking of course) and safe from potential threats from dynamic linking. I can see how generating wrappers could be useful, but how could it help deal with the potential threat of non-free add-ons?