2010/4/20 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>: > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Stéphane Ducasse > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> Do we add FFI by default in 1.1? > > Noooooooooo!!! > > I wouldn't include neither FFI or Alien FFI in neither PharoCore or PharoDev > image. > > FFI is an EXTERNAL package, NOT core, neither a dev tool. >
Frankly, its a dev tool. What else it is if not a dev tool? You have to be extremely careful, as with anything which using C or binary interfaces, but apart from it, i see nothing wrong with it. How else you can easily bind an external API to image? Writing a plugin? You could, but what the point in spending a lot of hours writing a primitives for each API function, when in the end, you still will be doing pretty same thing: using external api? > That's only my opinion. > > Cheers > > Mariano > >> >> This was the plan so. >> >> Stef >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
