[cffi-devel] Fix CFFI-UFFI-compat on ECL

dherring at tentpost.com dherring at tentpost.com
Sat Jan 30 10:25:22 UTC 2010


> 	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 declare such nickname for ECL or remove the alias from "FFI"
> 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 has its own UFFI?  I don't see the
increase in portability.

- Daniel





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