Re: Guile emacs thread (again)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:07:21 +0200
> From: Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Well, the "User-visible issues" there sound pretty scary to me.
> > Evidently, even building it, and even on GNU/Linux, is not without
> > problems ("it compiles and starts up if you struggle a little").
> 
> Note that replacing the Elisp engine with libguile has been done just
> now; this is the first publicly available version of it

That's clear (I did a "git log" ;-).  My comment was regarding the
possibility to use that seriously in its present state.

> If I understood BT Templeton (bipt) right on IRC, converting strings
> back and forth is only a temporary solution.  I hope we find a way to
> merge the two string types.

That will need a lot of talking first.  There are a lot of subtle
differences, and the fact that Guile based its non-ASCII support on
libunistring doesn't help.