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: obby Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:02:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873abbr4hp.fsf@hagelb.org> <87my95w0kv.fsf@hagelb.org> <87d49zubyf.fsf@red-bean.com> <87iqjp9r7s.fsf@canonical.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243263781 3828 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2009 15:03:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:03:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jtk@yahoo.com, Phil Hagelberg , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 25 17:02:53 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 1M8bhU-0007VJ-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:02:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8bhT-0003WM-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8bhO-0003Vz-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8bhK-0003Up-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40389 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8bhK-0003Uj-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:44673) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8bhJ-0006P3-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:02:41 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n4PF2e94000888; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:02:40 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9E00A3A07A; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:02:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87iqjp9r7s.fsf@canonical.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Mon, 25 May 2009 16:45:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3281=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:111081 Archived-At: > But could we conditionally link against it? Use it if it is there, and > have Ebby simply return errors otherwise, while the rest of Emacs would > be unaffected? It is true that we could do the same as we do for image libraries in w32: it gets dynamically loaded at runtime, but only if present, and the dynamic loading is specific to that library, so it can't be used for arbitrary non-GPL'd code. Having a real, generic dynamic-loading solution would be better, but that would be a good stop-gap. Stefan