This is what I do now. I actually package Chicken for the mobile which installs the shared library. I was looking at a cleaner separation so one app remained C without FFI code (or knowledge of Chicken) the other remained Chicken (with knowledge of D-Bus). The interface between the two being D-Bus. I am quite possibly trying to over engineer something here but interested in the alternatives to embedding. I would like to tell John Doe, you write this C app that talks to D-Bus. John Doe is happy as he knows how to talk to D-Bus from his C app and has never heard of Chicken or Scheme or s-expressions. John Doe does not need to care beyond that point how the data is encoded/sent/decoded/received and can build his app the way he knows how.
Regards, John. On 14/02/2008, Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, john wrote: > > > > Yes, I remember talk of dbus! Any progress Shawn? > > > > I am actually doing what you describe now and embedding Chicken to C > > to handle s-expressions and bit stuffing them (packedobjects). I was > > curious though to examine ways of removing the dependency of Chicken > > from the graphical client and using dbus to communicate with another > > entity that handles the s-expressions. Removing Chicken would simplify > > building the graphical client on the mobile. The problem is just moved > > to another place and hidden from C developers who could focus on the > > client. If that makes sense. > > > > > > > whats wrong with simply including libchicken.so (built for whatever platform) > with the codeball for the graphical client? wouldnt need to build chicken > again there and youd be simplifying interfaces and reducing dependencies... > with a little work, you could even write some code that only used the bits > of chicken you needed, compile that to a static lib, and send that, if > space is at an insane premium... > > > -elf > _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
