From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FFI in Emacs Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:47:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340840884 16307 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2012 23:48:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: =?utf-8?Q?Aur=C3=A9lien?= Aptel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 28 01:48:03 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 1Sk1xl-0000LD-Fy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:47:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk1xl-00010u-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk1xj-00010p-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk1xh-0005q3-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk1xh-0005pz-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:47:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk1xf-0007Go-GQ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:47:51 -0400 X-Spook: AVIP Panama SCUD missile morse Albanian bomb United X-Ran: *&my>09r"rUA,:IX/&TX\,HbpKQ'V;(RQ3XxS*#EB:]Q_4_|@7z-5I$+_:dQW-LH:coc)= X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?Q?=22Aur=C3=A9lien?= Aptel"'s message of "Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:36:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:151244 Archived-At: Aur=C3=A9lien Aptel wrote: > All in all, FFI is a really cool feature. The only real problem is > that some people (and particularly Dr. Stallman) think that a FFI > might lead to the development of proprietary plugins. This aspect was resolved years ago. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00240.html We gave GCC a plug-in interface last year, after developing a method to make it safer. So now it is ok to do this in Emacs as well. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Dynamic-Plug_002dIn-Interfaces.= html