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: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git? Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:09:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wq6tu5m5.fsf@kima.orebokech.com> <85h9xwhpy9.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87k32sh50f.fsf@lifelogs.com> <85tx1rg64e.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> <87siha7r3b.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lhmz4mtj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sih575rc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8361dyaqf1.fsf@gnu.org> <837fycae5p.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417371011 2845 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 18:10:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:10:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 19:10:04 2014 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 1Xv8wd-00070A-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:10:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv8wd-0001Lw-AS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51515) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv8wT-0001La-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv8wI-0000iW-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:09:53 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:52554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv8wI-0000iO-3I; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id sAUI9cfi028784; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:09:39 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CCB8E85E7; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:09:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <837fycae5p.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:42:10 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5141=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5141> : inlines <1571> : streams <1350042> : uri <1836762> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:178531 Archived-At: > Like I said: I question whether this is a good idea. Such modules > will break all the time due to internal changes, and at best will only > work with one particular version of Emacs internals. The compiled module will probably be very closely tied to a particular Emacs version, indeed. The source code will probably also depend on some narrow version range. The way I view it, the issue is simply that it will take time to stabilize the API. Stefan