Re: persistent data feature

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  galex-713@galex-713.eu,  tom@logand.com,  
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:04:18 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Once again, (1) and (3) are the same.  I think nowadays people prefer
> > shared libraries for reasons of system maintenance, and its infeasible
> > to try to force users or distros to use only static linking (nor do I
> > see any reasons for that, either technical or political, as long as we
> > are talking about Free Software anyway).
> 
> I think RMS may have meant the dynamic module support which exists in
> Emacs.

In that case, it's a misunderstanding and a tangent in the context of
this discussion.  We don't use sqlite3 via a dynamic module, and I
personally think it would be wrong for Emacs to provide _any_ core
feature through modules -- doing so just adds complexity for no good
reason.