On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:20:54 -0700, JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
I don't mind how many dependencies CFFI has. It could have zero, or it
could have 1000. All I care about is that a single action,
(asdf-install:install :lispbuilder-sdl), will retrieve and install all
dependencies.
My install notes for Win32 state to use Edi Weitz's STARTER-PACK and my
config.lisp file, which takes care of everything.
As far as I am concerned, if a user does not want to use asdf-install or
the starter-pack, then they are on their own.
- Luke
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