Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Which leads to another idea that I think may have been mentioned:  Does
>> Emacs have the ability to load C plugins from shared objects?

No, not yet, but there's preliminary work for that, and I hope that
preliminary work can get included for 25.1, tho I haven't heard much
news from it in a while.

> Why would we need that?  We _are_ the Emacs project, so we could
> simply make whatever C code is needed part of Emacs.

Because we want Emacs-25.1 to be able to link to libraries which might
not yet have been written when 25.1 is released.


        Stefan