On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:35:50 +0200, George Danchev <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not quite sure what a flat API means and whether you mean objects as > instances and classes as types here, but if that could not be explored in > the > sense of separate compilation and further dynamic linkage, then it is not > that > helpful. object == instance class == type Flat API means that you don't have classes to use but a set of "flat" functions which receive just pointers to an object. (like you have the class "Foo" which has the function "do_something". The lib will contain a "gpointer new_foo()" function and a "foo_do_something(gpointer obj)" function to work with the object. Normally you would access the object directly in your programming language, here you work with a pointer) But this is not really the subject of this entry... The problem is that a lot of Pascal developers include 3rd-party components directly into their source code. It is not common to move all functions into a separate library.
> ... which does not mean it is a very good idea to do so. I don't know what > to > suggest, but chances are you spend your time with that approach, and then > you > realize that no sponsor would upload it the way it is. Not any > DFSG-compliant > software worth packaging, in my opinion. You're right with this... I created a package for GLScene (just a trial). The GLScene developers say the project is licensed under MPL, but I find parts of GPL and LGPL in the software too. Also there is no list of upstream authors. The worst thing is that GLScene needs a lot of manual work to integrate it into the IDE. I worked with Debconf for this, but the last problems are not worth the effort. So I contacted upstream about this. Maybe the affected code will be included directly into the source tarball. This would solve all GLScene problems. If this is not possible I better wait some months until the GLScene devs improved the IDE integration. Thank you for your help! Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
