Re: IDE

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:20:48 +0200
> 
> >> ruling your work unwelcome.
> >
> > Ah, so we are again talking about hurt feelings?
> 
> I had no work invested in that area, so trying to turn this into an ad
> hominem attack is a bit pointless.

No attack here, David, certainly not on you.  I just wanted to know
whether we are talking about technical difficulties or psychological
ones.

The latter is exactly where will power should come into play.

> > Policy decisions can be easily translated into "technical
> > difficulties", by writing more code.
> 
> Shrug.  One can rewrite GCC in Elisp in order to avoid the interdict
> against generic interfaces and data exchange.

I don't think one needs to rewrite GCC in any language to get the
information we need.  Some coding is indeed in order.

> Rewriting something from scratch for the sake of escaping the shackles
> of proprietary software is a motivation we can expect some contributors
> to Emacs and GCC to have.  Rewriting something from scratch for the sake
> of escaping the shackles of applied FSF policies isn't.  That's just not
> the typical target clientele of GCC and Emacs and it shouldn't need to
> be.

Now you are creating a straw man.