> > >On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Roland Averkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Is it really necesary to use the Babel and Alexandria libraries in CFFI? > > Now CFFI depends on two libraries and every other system which uses > > CFFI needs these two libraries too. > > That's an issue that was taken into consideration. > > As a mere user, I was also a bit frustrated trying to compile the newest CFFI with all its dependencies, especially because these extra packages had RCS's that were not on my machine. The new CFFI was a long chain of upgrades and installs. For a newbie, this could be a real roadblock, and each additional step will cause attrition of the userbase.
Might it be a good idea to repackage these libraries as TRIVIAL-FEATURES-CFFI, BABEL-CFFI, etc, and distribute these along with cffi? They would still be there, would be easy to upgrade, but would be invisible to the casual cffi user. Jan
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