From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FFI in Emacs Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:43:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340854992 4795 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2012 03:43:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 28 05:43:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk5dM-0005yu-DX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:43:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk5dM-0006AJ-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35528) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk5dK-0006A7-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk5dI-0004Fj-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:19568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk5dI-0004Ei-AF; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:43:04 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09soXbe/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgcBQu5fpBEA6MzgViDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="192247046" Original-Received: from 108-161-118-222.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.161.118.222]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 27 Jun 2012 23:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 68DBD592B0; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:43:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:12:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151250 Archived-At: >> So if we update Dave's patch, it can be committed toward 24.2? >> http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/dynamic-loading/ Possibly, yes. I haven't looked at the code, so I can't whether I'd like it or not, and we'd want someone willing to maintain it. > One to possibly bear in mind is that in recent years he no longer wants > to assign his copyright to the FSF (IIUC). AFAIK, it's more subtle than that. So I think he'd be perfectly OK if we used his code. But for some reason, we seem to have trouble agreeing on maintenance, so we'd need someone to very actively maintain it. Stefan