On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>wrote:
> No real agenda either way here, except to say that we almost have that in > FFI. If you know enough to make the call, do you not know enough to write > the FFI wrapper? Just asking. Having stirred the broth, I'll shut up and > learn :) > > My last attempts: http://forum.world.st/Re-Z3950-on-OSX-module-yaz3-not-found-tp3161332p3161332.html http://forum.world.st/Re-FFI-crashes-VM-on-Linux-was-Z3950-on-OSX-module-yaz3-not-found-td3163001.html Any help appreciated. Laurent. > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [ > [email protected]] On Behalf Of laurent laffont > [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > On 6 May 2011 18:45, laurent laffont <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> Is it works because someone already provided a bindings for libraries > >> you mention, > >> or you did it by yourself? > > > > Have just used ctypes: > >>>> import ctypes > >>>> import ctypes.util > >>>> ctypes.util.find_library("yaz") > > '/usr/local/lib/libyaz.dylib' > >>>> yaz = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libyaz.dylib") > >>>> con = yaz.ZOOM_connection_new("z3950.loc.gov<http://z3950.loc.gov>", > 7090); > > oh cool.. give me a 5 minutes to load external library, look up the > random symbol exported by it > and make a call to it with random number of arguments, and expect it > won't crash. > > Works outta box! Cool. > > Now serious. How about spending time writing a bindings for that library? > Where you have properly organized classes/interfaces, error handling > and other stuff. > No takers? > > Seriously, if you want such kind of shitty interface, which allows you > to call arbitrary function with arbitrary arguments > without any argument type checking, i can write it for you. > > > Do it, please do it. Seriously. Thanks > > Laurent. > > > > > Laurent > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko AKA sig. > > > >
