On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/4/20 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Stéphane Ducasse
> > <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> 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?
>

Just a library, but not a dev tool from my point of view. I understand from
"dev tool" a tool aimed for make the developrs life better: good browsers,
autocompletion, color hightitlying, refactoring tools, etc.



> 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
> >>
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