From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Aquamacs distro for OS X like behavior Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:20:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7ca1709813602da58a139cee58fb4c63@gmail.com> <3b9c4e2f33d37fed55f640dcafbc8d65@gmail.com> <002d01c53a15$4a871c60$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112804513 18962 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2005 16:21:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, david.reitter@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 18:21:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJDHA-0001C0-85 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:21:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJCqI-00024L-AX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJCpn-0001wL-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJCpm-0001uJ-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:52:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJDHZ-0006m0-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJDGn-00039c-Of; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:20:46 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:59:22 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:35640 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35640 Richard Stallman writes: > What about wxwidgets? > > I don't know anything about them technically, but if they make > the job easier and they are free software, there is no theoretical > reason we could not use them. > > However, our priority should be GTK, I think. wxwidgets take GTK+ as one of their backends, so one does not exclude the other. However, AFAICS wxwidgets supports just C++. I don't think that it would make sense to move Emacs to C++. Also they are third-party software. Basing Emacs ports to rely on them in favor of other approaches would seem like a strategical risk to me. Such a commitment, I think, would require some securities. Anyway, given the C++ problem, I don't think that we need to think about that. If somebody wants to invest time taking a look how to combine Emacs with xwidgets without having to replace our build and memory allocation infra structure, that's fine. But I can't see it as a viable porting path at the moment. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum