[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump

[François Revol]

> Dave Dodge <dododge at dododge.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:48:01PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> >> Hmm.... imagine an Emacs with Lua as its embedded language... :) 
> > > :) :)
> >
> > Unfortunately this requires two things:
> >
> >   1) Porting, or continuing to support, all of the existing elisp 
> > code
> >      so that emacs will continue to be emacs.  I believe it's been
> >      tried many times before (e.g. "JEmacs is a re-implementation 
> > of
> >      Emacs, written in a mix of Java, Scheme, and ELisp") and 
> > usually
> >      ends in tears.
> >
> >   2) Delving into the emacs core C code.  From tiny glances at it 
> > over
> >      the years, merely observing that code may be enough to destroy
> >      whatever quantum-mechanical magic allows it to work at all.  I
> >      just risked my sanity by glancing at lisp.h, and yes it 
> > appears
> >      they are still using tagged pointers.
> 
> There was a period when building XEmacs on Alpha was a no-go.  There
> was some bizarre failure in the "portable dumper".  I forget whether
> this was during the "oxymoron" codename series or earlier.
> 

The portable dumper works quite well these days, probably because 
people got sick of having to write a dumper for every arch and OS they 
ported XEmacs too... hey it even works in BeOS :D
http://revolf.free.fr/beos/shots/shot_xemacs_beos_native_toolbars.png

(but doesn't run in Haiku because it's not self-hosted yet and it 
reverted the vm split which used to be the opposite of everyone (0-2^31 
kernel 2^31-2^32 user) since R4 for no reason).

Fran?ois.