From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> <87tvpdnzgy.fsf@tromey.com> <4c2a814f-c254-29e5-39cf-11b5f2e5c9c8@cs.ucla.edu> <87va9q5nil.fsf@tromey.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531090540 22627 195.159.176.226 (8 Jul 2018 22:55:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 22:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, tom@tromey.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 00:55:36 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIad-0005kj-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:55:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIck-00081h-Tt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIan-0006l6-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIam-0001Xq-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIaU-0001Ei-C6; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIaT-0002xq-W4; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87va9q5nil.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Sat, 07 Jul 2018 23:01:38 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227142 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The reason I have made this optional so far is that introducing a new > build-time dependency seems like a pain. However, if it isn't really a > pain, then I think Emacs would be better if this were just used > unconditionally. I think it will be even more of a pain to support Emacs both with and without GMO. How much of a pain would it be to package GMP with Emacs? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)