On 01/30/2010 01:25 PM, dherr...@tentpost.com wrote:
>> package. I think the second is a better (although marginally more
>> complex) behavior, because it increases portability and reduces number
>> of people who notice implementation quirks of UFFI package.
>
> Why load cffi's uffi-compat if ECL
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
>> Right. I don't think many projects are using uffi-compat explicitly though.
>
> As opposed to what? With ASDF-Install one has to state all dependencies
> clearly...
Well, a common use case is to take a library that supposedly depends
on UF
> I am trying to simplify ASDF-Install'ing Cells-GTK on different
> platforms. When trying with ECL, I find the following problem: CFFI
> defines uffi-compat package with "uffi" alias. Comment even expresses
> doubt whether it is a good idea. ECL has its own UFFI. So CFFI should
> either not
On 01/29/2010 12:00 PM, Luís Oliveira wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
>> Why special-case something in every program if there is a project that
>> tracks how FFI is implemented across Common Lisp implementations?
> Right. I don't think many projects are using uffi-c
On 01/29/2010 11:29 AM, Luís Oliveira wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
>> I am trying to simplify ASDF-Install'ing Cells-GTK on different
>> platforms. When trying with ECL, I find the following problem: CFFI
>> defines uffi-compat package with "uffi" alias.
> Why us
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
> Why special-case something in every program if there is a project that
> tracks how FFI is implemented across Common Lisp implementations?
Right. I don't think many projects are using uffi-compat explicitly though.
> So maybe you could ta
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
> I am trying to simplify ASDF-Install'ing Cells-GTK on different
> platforms. When trying with ECL, I find the following problem: CFFI
> defines uffi-compat package with "uffi" alias.
Why use cffi-uffi-compat if ECL already provides its own
Hello.
I am trying to simplify ASDF-Install'ing Cells-GTK on different
platforms. When trying with ECL, I find the following problem: CFFI
defines uffi-compat package with "uffi" alias. Comment even expresses
doubt whether it is a good idea. ECL has its own UFFI. So CFFI should
eit
