I think the CLX maintainer who objects to modifying CLX to play nice with a lisp implementation that defines :little-endian and doesn't accept old-school eval-when conditions is unlikely to think that this is a step in the right direction.
Cyrus On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Luís Oliveira wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Cyrus Harmon <ch-l...@bobobeach.com> wrote: >> >> Forgive me if you've heard me rant about this before, but there is a mutual >> incompatibility between CLX, trivial-features (which, for me at least, gets >> pulled in whenever I try to use CFFI) and SBCL. The problem is that >> trivial-features puts :little-endian on *features* and CLX has the following >> code in defdeps.lisp: >> >> #+(or lispm vax little-endian Minima) >> (eval-when (eval compile load) >> (pushnew :clx-little-endian *features*)) > > trivial-features is a bit impolite about pushing :little-endian to > *features*. In my defense, one of the design goals of trivial-features > is to effortlessly disappear over time. I.e., at some point in the > future Lisps will have agreed on what keywords to use, and > trivial-features will be a no-op or removed altogether without changes > to code that uses it. As such, my decision was to use the same > keywords that are in widespread use and make minimal adjustments to > provide consistency across Lisps. > > Perhaps if we can sneak a :little/big-endian feature into SBCL proper, > the CLX fix will become inevitable and we'll be a tiny bit closer to > achieving trivial-features' goal? :-) > > Cheers, > > -- > Luís Oliveira > http://r42.eu/~luis/ _______________________________________________ cffi-devel mailing list cffi-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cffi-devel
