From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas L Roche Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs port to Eclipse Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:07:23 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077931614 26274 80.91.224.253 (28 Feb 2004 01:26:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 01:26:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 28 02:26:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AwtFe-00013g-00 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:26:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AwtFa-0001x6-Mx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:26:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AwtBl-0000nl-DK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:22:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Awszl-0006cy-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1Awszk-0006ck-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [32.97.110.133] (helo=e35.co.us.ibm.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Awsx1-0004Fo-2u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:07:31 -0500 Original-Received: from westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.193.32]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i1S17QF4366802 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:07:26 -0500 Original-Received: from d03nm120.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.193.82]) by westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i1S17PVN130304 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:07:26 -0700 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0.2CF1 June 9, 2003 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D03NM120/03/M/IBM(Release 6.0.2CF2|July 23, 2003) at 02/27/2004 18:07:25, Serialize complete at 02/27/2004 18:07:25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17298 Tom Roche Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:17:15 -0500 >> * Eclipse can run any COM object in a page (== ), so a >> COM wrapper [for Emacs] would work Gian Uberto Lauri Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:23:49 +0100 > Not S.O. independent :> - Tom Roche 02/27/2004 07:52 PM > That's what I thought, until I heard about > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/ > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html > > The biggest contrast between XPCOM and MSCOM is that XPCOM > > technology is open source. Actually, a bigger contrast: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html > XPCOM offers agility across platforms. It supports just about any > platform that hosts a decent C++ compiler, including: > * Microsoft Windows (all flavors) > * Linux > * HP-UX > * AIX > * Solaris > * OpenVMS > * MacOS > * BSD and that's from an article dated 1 February 2001.