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Re: NaCl support for Emacs


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: NaCl support for Emacs
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:59:24 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux)

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:43:58 +0100 Carsten Mattner <address@hidden> wrote: 

CM> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I'm interested in bringing in support for the NaCl cryptographic library
>>> for Emacs, after 24.1 is out.  There is info on NaCl here:
>> 
>> While it might be an interesting feature to provide for future Elisp
>> packages, its immediate usefulness is much less obvious, so the kind of
>> compile-time linking model we use for things like libgnutls would not be
>> appropriate (e.g. Debian wouldn't want to add nacl as a dependency if
>> it's not actually used).
>> 
>> OTOH that might be a good motivation to add support for dynamic loading
>> of extension libraries.

CM> Only if NaCl's "Automatic CPU-specific tuning" can be done at run-time
CM> and not only at compile-time. Ted, what's the status with that?

If we manage it as a GNU ELPA package with an included tarball, so it's
downloaded and compiled locally, sure.  But otherwise yeah, it's not so
nice.  NaCl is a nice library with no community, AFAICT, and that's
really my biggest concern about integrating with it.  There's no place
to propose changes or get updates.

Ted




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