Re: ELisp?

[Ken Raeburn]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 04:46, address@hidden wrote:
> Where is your public repository? I would be interested to have a look.

Try git://raeburn.scripts.mit.edu/guile-emacs.git.  But it's about two years 
old. :-(
One of these days....

> As a concrete example, one could use guiles libffi integration to offer
> the same feature to Emacs. I could personally use it in my xwidgets
> emacs branch to call dynamically into webkit rather than having to make
> a c wrapper for each and every function.

Hmm... this touches on a political issue I'd been avoiding thinking about.  
Namely, adding Guile to Emacs, with Guile's new FFI support, would make 
dynamically loading new executable code into Emacs easy, technically, including 
non-GPL code written specifically to extend Emacs.  There's been a lot of 
resistance to that in the past.  See for example 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00403.html .

On the technical side (ignoring the political/legal angles), I wonder if it 
would be quicker to drop FFI support into Emacs directly, using an interface 
based on the Guile one, and use that for now, until the Emacs+Guile work is far 
enough along to merge.  I suspect your xwidgets code would be ready for 
integration much sooner than that. :-)

Ken