Re: Emacs ffi

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

"laynor@gmail.com" <laynor@gmail.com> writes:

> I've seen SXEmacs has a foreign function interface, any chance it will
> also be in mainstream FSF Emacs?

Yes. 

P(FFI in FSF Emacs) = P(somebody ports FFI to FSF Emacs) * P(FFI patch is 
accepted by FSF Emacs maintainers).

Since you seems interested, and only a programmer would be interested
in FFI, we could evaluate P(somebody ports FFI to FSF Emacs)  to be
about 0.7 (you'll tell us).


On the other hand, AFAIK, FSF (ie. RMS) is not to keen to integrate
FFI to Emacs, so I would evaluate: P(FFI patch is accepted by FSF
Emacs maintainers) = 0.1 in the near future.

Total: P(FFI in FSF Emacs) = 0.7 * 0.1 = 0.07

Which is not null.

Moreover, you might not care about RMS's opinion, and be happy with
your port of FFI to GNU emacs.  There will probably be other users
happy with your patch too, and some interesting stuff will be
developed with it.  Which should increase P(FFI patch is accepted by
FSF Emacs maintainers) eventually.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__