Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch?

[Adrian Robert]

On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> What is Applescript?  What does it do?  Can you show me an example
> of what people do with it?  How does it relate to Emacs?  Does it mean
> people can extend Emacs with Applescript programs?  Or can they
> only run Emacs from it, like from a shell script?

I'm not sure about this, and wasn't involved in the implementation in  
either port.  Maybe one of those who were can say something.



>    After the merge, to support users migrating from Carbon, provider
>    functionality was added to the Cocoa services implementation,
>
> Does this mean that the "services integration" includes some features
> that work on GNUstep and some that do not?

No.  But a consumer implementation is something that all apps on both  
MacOS and GNUstep have; to leave it out of Emacs would be a glaring  
deficit to users.  A provider implementation, where Emacs exports menu  
entries for interapplication services to other apps, is nice, but is  
only done by a minority of apps on either platform, so it goes beyond  
what is needed for Emacs to be a first-class desktop citizen and might  
as well be left for distributions.