Re: ELisp?

[joakim]

Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> writes:

> On Nov 11, 2011, at 04:46, address@hidden 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 .

Yes, this seems to have been resolved if the GCC scheme for identifying
GPL libraries is used. Basically GPL libraries expose a symbol declaring GPL 
compliance.

>
> 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. :-)

Quicker, yes, but less interesting. I suppose I'm looking for an excuse
to do this :)

> Ken

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Joakim Verona