Re: master 3d38d1d: Add sqlite3 support to Emacs

[tomas]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:41:07PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> Thanks for sending me the LD_PRELOAD info.
> 
> LD_PRELOAD seems to be a user customization facility,

It definitely is: for the user/sysadmin. Much akin to advice in the
Emacs world. Releasing packages which make use of it has a confusion
potential and should be avoided, unless that is their specific purpose
(example: apulse makes use of LD_PRELOAD to make applications think they
are talking to pulseaudio, whereas the user only has ALSA available [1],
but that is its stated intention; another good example is faketime,
which uses LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls to control the date/time
an application "sees" -- be it for testing or for reproducible builds).

Definitely not a thing which should happen without the user's knowledge:
she'll be confronted with difficult-to-debug situations otherwise.

> not well suited to releasing modified versions of programs.

Absolutely.

> So I think it is not significant for the question of sqlite3 modules.

Strong agreement here.

Cheers
-- 
tomás

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