Re: Forthcoming revisions to the garbage collector; crazy huge hack

Martin> I think you'll have to run the source through the C preprocessor Martin> first, which means your gcproizer has to run every build. Using the Martin> standard Unix utilities, this will be hard (i.e. you'll want to use Martin> something like perl or python). Most free software projects don't Martin> have such dependencies for non-maintainer-mode, MS> But we have plenty of library dependencies which are actually harder MS> to satisfy in a lot of setups. The library dependencies should mostly be optional. E.g. X11 is optional. Martin> but I think the time might be right to introduce such a Martin> dependency for xemacs. MS> Yes, but preferably not on Perl or Python. You want an actual C MS> frontend for this. I already have most of one lying around here for MS> the job. Writing it in C is the Right Thing - portable and fast. But also difficult. If you already have one, use it, share it.