From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NaCl support for Emacs Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:48:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <6ED011D5-E185-44C6-BB31-A445A4E5F83A@gmail.com> <87wr976otx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ipkq6yy5.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87boqi6tzz.fsf@linux-hvfx.site> <87ehve3ul8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lipl22xm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87boqh20ha.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871urc46c9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <739bsoysp.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87ty47r5yt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k452p5u3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87liphne9e.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326142172 5729 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2012 20:49:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:49:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 09 21:49:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkM9o-0002Ho-D9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:49:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkM9o-0001Bz-0W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:49:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39933) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkM9l-0001Bt-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkM9k-0008N6-KE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:49:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.bahnhof.se ([213.80.101.11]:58984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkM9k-0008MB-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:49:24 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (mf.bahnhof.se [213.80.101.20]) by mx1-reinject (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655082954EC; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:49:21 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at bahnhof.se (MF2) Original-Received: from mf2.bahnhof.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mf2.bahnhof.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gNbt+40Qmsmi; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:49:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from exodia.localdomain (h-235-102.a149.priv.bahnhof.se [85.24.235.102]) by mf2.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3533450058; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:49:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from chopper.vpn.verona.se (DIR-655.a149.priv.bahnhof.se [192.168.200.86]) by exodia.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFD64E0007; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:48:58 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:30:23 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-Received-From: 213.80.101.11 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:147528 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I'm interested in bringing in support for the NaCl cryptographic library >> for Emacs, after 24.1 is out. There is info on NaCl here: > > While it might be an interesting feature to provide for future Elisp > packages, its immediate usefulness is much less obvious, so the kind of > compile-time linking model we use for things like libgnutls would not be > appropriate (e.g. Debian wouldn't want to add nacl as a dependency if > it's not actually used). > > OTOH that might be a good motivation to add support for dynamic loading > of extension libraries. I've been toying with the idea of using linking Guile to Emacs so as to access Guiles libffi integration in Emacs. Granted, if all you wanted was Emacs + libffi than Emacs + Guile + libffi would seem stupid. OTOH I think it would be a good project to nudge the two platforms closer. > > > Stefan -- Joakim Verona