Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:03:16 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, Richard Stallman <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> We are losing contact with academia, that's true.  I don't see a
> short-term fix for that.  But we are losing also contact with willing
> hackers who'd actually want to work on Emacs/GCC integration and who'd
> be perfectly willing to just leave the legal considerations in the hand
> of the FSF but who are barred from working on the implementation.
> 
> And that's really worrying.  I think there's too much baby in the
> bathwater we are throwing out here.

I agree, but I think we should get back on track discussing the
technical issues and aspects of building infrastructure for a good
modern IDE using some help from GCC.

Suppose we did have a way getting the necessary information from GCC
that is not in the form of an AST: what such an information package
would need to include to allow the functionality users expect from a
modern IDE?  Could someone come up with a list of information items
that would be needed?  Given such a list, we could try to discuss
various alternatives of getting the info from GCC.