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, 11 May 2009 13:19:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873abbr4hp.fsf@hagelb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242062371 11924 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2009 17:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jeff Kowalczyk , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Hagelberg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 19:19:21 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 1M3Z9s-00057X-Du for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 19:19:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42939 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M3Z9r-0005na-NT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M3Z9n-0005nO-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M3Z9i-0005mX-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44030 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M3Z9i-0005mR-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:4333 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M3Z9h-00023D-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:19:10 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvIEAFv7B0pLd+1m/2dsb2JhbACBUMtDhAIFhVk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,329,1238990400"; d="scan'208";a="38405535" Original-Received: from 75-119-237-102.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.237.102]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 11 May 2009 13:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1D1A97ED8; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:19:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <873abbr4hp.fsf@hagelb.org> (Phil Hagelberg's message of "Mon, 11 May 2009 09:25:38 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:110826 Archived-At: > By the way, this is a textbook case for why we would want to support > dynamic linking. The reference implementation of the Infinote protocol, > libinfinote, is released under the LGPL, so it would save a great deal > of effort to be able to use that rather than creating a new, > independent, under-manned implementation from scratch. It's especially > hard to get motivated to sink that much effort into an alternate > implementation when you know it would be much easier and more robust to > link to an existing Free one. Short of dynamic-linking there are 2 options: - link at compile-time, as we do for png, svg, ... - write a wrapper to turn the C API into a little executable that speaks "the same API" over its stdin/stdout, so you can use it via start-process. Stefan "who hopes we will find some way to allow dynamic loading of libraries at some point, maybe with a similar approach as what is being designed for javascript"