Re: More GSoC project ideas.

* Mats Lidell <matsl(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: It is certainly possible to do so, but you'll have to spend a fair amount of effort on user hand-holding because very few Linux distributions install libffi by default (same for Mac, and I've no idea about win... probably not available there at all). Things have gotten a lot better since we began, at least now we don't have to get poor frightened newbies to compile their own gcc from source just to get libffi. There is now a external-from-gcc libffi package which is a snap to build and install. Sadly, the major distro's still don't include it by default. Something I've never been able to understand, considering how useful it is. When I sat down to write pui-bootstrap.el we had already had gobs and gobs of "how come my SXEmacs doesn't have FFI?" user queries so I decided to do the minimum needed that also had a very easy work-around for anyone not having FFI (d/l and install EFS/xemacs-base by hand). Oh, that, and the fact I'm a lazy bastard and didn't want to completely rewrite all of PUI. :-) I really think that XEmacs needs FFI, just understand that it may not be all smooth sailing. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---| | SXEmacs - The only _______ you'll ever need. | | Fill in the blank, yes, it's THAT good! | |------------------------------------&lt;steve(a)sxemacs.org&gt;---| _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta