Probably. There were some discussions that alien will be integrated / working also for the windows vm. So we will see which one I will let people with more experience telling that to us.
Stef On Apr 25, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > yes communication with C library. so this is just a tool too. > > > > > > > > Exactly. It is a tool. Not a dev tool in my opinion.In such way, SqueakDBX > > is also a tool. A tool to persist in a relational database. > > Mariano FFI/ALIEN is ***REALLY*** important to get the possibility to call > and write code in smalltalk > as mentioned by john so this is more central (closer to core) than openDBX or > refactoring browser. > Look at lua... why lua is cool because he can be embeded seamlessly in C and > call C. So if we do not put pressure > on FFI to support callback well or ALIEN then we will stay this language that > has problem to interact with the outside world. > This is why having FFI in pharo-dev is important. We should be able to call > mac native menu. > Of course we should pay attention that we rely too much on C library but the > world is getting more complex and writing > everything in smalltalk is also costly. Not FFI/ALIEN can reduce our > dependency to C compilation and C-writing so this is already > an important step. > Am I clear? > > > Yes, and I agree. However, that was not the discussion. I agree FFI is > important. I don't care to add it to PharoDev 1.1 if you agree with that. > But I STILL think and that's what I was discussing in the last mail, is that > FFI is NOT A DEV TOOL for me. > Anyway...forget this little discussion. > > In summary, should I add FFI when I start to build PharoDev 1.1 ? > > Cheers > > Mariano > > 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 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
