Re: XEmacs Module (was Re: [VETO] Re: XEmacs-21.4.5 ...)

Jerry> The obvious API would completely isolate the XEmacs Jerry> internals from the modules, Then why not write the whole thing in Lisp in the first place? (Yes, you mentioned real-time apps, already.) This is pretty much a non- starter AFAICS. I wouldn't even bother to write it up, if I were you. Jerry> **Note that this means that the binary version of a Jerry> module will be specific to the version of XEmacs Jerry> corresponding to the ellcc that produced it.** It's worse than that. We would hope that modules would start calling each other. Jerry> I proposed something along those lines awhile back, only I Jerry> got too ambitious and proposed a similar approach for the Jerry> XEmacs core as well. I am very sympathetic to this. It would solve a number of my management problems. Martin believes the the Fairy Godmanager, who can be beloved of developers, and so doesn't need to worry about those. Jerry> Martin (rightly!) shot me down. :-) Rightly at the time. And now, too. But keep it in the back of your mind. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.