Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:27:41 -0600
> 
> > We will need a .h file just to compile those modules (we want to be able
> > to compile those modules from a compiled version of Emacs, i.e. in the
> > absence of the complete C source of Emacs).
> 
> That's not a requirement for me as a package developer, nor if the
> modules are distributed as binary.
> 
> But if we want to distribute the modules as source, to be compiled on
> each user's machine (as elisp code in ELPA packages is now), then we
> need that .h file, yes.

We want to allow developers of modules to compile their modules
without full access to the Emacs sources, and that requires a header
file.