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Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds? |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 06:46:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>> We've been trying to move to a different architecture for detecting
>> whether Emacs has been built with, and currently has access to, external
>> libraries -- `*-available-p'. It'd be nice if xwidget had that
>> function, too.
>
> The problem is `xwidget' isn't really a library, it's a feature that
> makes use of many different external libraries.
Sorry, I mean "optionally build features".
> Ideally, people would test for the named feature `xwidget-internal',
> but the amount of people who refrained from reading the first
> paragraph of the xwidget node in the Lisp reference manual is
> astonishing.
The first rule of programming is that nobody reads the manual.
(xwidget-available-p 'webkit) could say whether webkit was available,
etc.
>> suggestion -- make `make-xwidget' require widget.el -- is the way to go.
>
> Is calling require okay from C code? If so, that's what I'll do.
It's unusual, but to work around unfortunate dependencies like this, it
should be OK.
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- Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Po Lu, 2021/12/15
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/15
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Po Lu, 2021/12/15
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/15
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/15
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Po Lu, 2021/12/15
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/16
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Po Lu, 2021/12/16
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?,
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- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/16
- Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Po Lu, 2021/12/16
Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/16