From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: ELisp? Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:13:24 -0500 Message-ID: <35C54F61-5144-4C54-808C-4A430F81D8D8@raeburn.org> References: <8384F5A2-FD71-43D0-8497-59A542D0B6A5@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321064019 25918 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2011 02:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 03:13:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-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 1RP366-00047d-5W for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:13:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RP365-0008GN-DA for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35959) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RP361-0008GI-Vp for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:13:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RP360-0007qE-3p for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:13:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:48674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RP360-0007pr-1V for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:13:28 -0500 Original-Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so4652410vws.0 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:13:26 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.52.28.18 with SMTP id x18mr512512vdg.114.1321064006810; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:13:26 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from squish.raeburn.org (c-66-31-202-94.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. [66.31.202.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c20sm19756600vdt.6.2011.11.11.18.13.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:13:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.212.41 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12888 Archived-At: On Nov 11, 2011, at 04:46, joakim@verona.se wrote: > Where is your public repository? I would be interested to have a look. Try git://raeburn.scripts.mit.edu/guile-emacs.git. But it's about two = years old. :-( One of these days.... > As a concrete example, one could use guiles libffi integration to = offer > the same feature to Emacs. I could personally use it in my xwidgets > emacs branch to call dynamically into webkit rather than having to = make > a c wrapper for each and every function. Hmm... this touches on a political issue I'd been avoiding thinking = about. Namely, adding Guile to Emacs, with Guile's new FFI support, = would make dynamically loading new executable code into Emacs easy, = technically, including non-GPL code written specifically to extend = Emacs. There's been a lot of resistance to that in the past. See for = example = http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00403.html . On the technical side (ignoring the political/legal angles), I wonder if = it would be quicker to drop FFI support into Emacs directly, using an = interface based on the Guile one, and use that for now, until the = Emacs+Guile work is far enough along to merge. I suspect your xwidgets = code would be ready for integration much sooner than that. :-) Ken=