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Re: Dynamic loading progress


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:01:49 +0200

> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 04:17:17 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> That's why this whole module effort is misguided and dangerous. With a
> CFFI-style approach to loading code dynamically, shared modules don't
> need to know anything about Emacs internal structure, so there are no
> ABI or source compatibility issues.
> 
> I still think a CFFI port would be less work than trying to extract a
> stable Emacs internals API that modules can include.

I don't understand how CFFI would solve the problem, at least not all
of it.  We'd still need to write code to allow modules create Lisp
objects, right?  That code would still be Emacs version dependent,
right?  What am I missing?



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