Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Richard M Stallman]

    >From what I understand, Emacs will be moving to Guile (or at least a
    Guile updated to meet its needs).

That is a long-term possibility, but nowhere near reality.
We would have to make Guile coexist well with Emacs Lisp,
and until we try it we won't know if it really can work.

    Does integration of Emacs into the GNU Desktop mean that Emacs just
    starts picking up Gnome and dbus facilities,

Why not?  (It already does dbus.)

                                                 and dropping portability
    concerns,

Certainly not!