Re: A real database for Emacs
all code that hooks into the c code arbitrarily must be in src/ so that developers
can fix it. changing this is a very *bad* design goal. if we are going to
support modules at all, we need to do it hrvoje's way. i personally think it's a
waste of time. work on improving the lisp implementation instead. e.g. the
much-cited w3 example has *never* been profiled properly, as far as i know. we
should be working towards less c code, not more.
"J. Kean Johnston" wrote:
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:37:43PM -0800, Kyle Jones wrote:
> SL Baur writes:
> > I've now spent the better part of this week porting my code from 21.1
> > to 21.2. The internal interface to XEmacs is way too much of a moving
> > target for me to consider making this code available primarily as a
> > module at this time.
>
> Agree. We'll have to publish an API before anyone will be
> willing to write and support non-trivial modules.
My original intention was for modules to be indistinguishable from
C code found in the src/ tree, if for no other reason, so that systems
which did not support dynamic loading could still use the code. If we
break this, I think we will have lost a good design goal.
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