From edi at agharta.de  Thu Nov 12 20:57:10 2009
From: edi at agharta.de (Edi Weitz)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:57:10 +0100
Subject: [rdnzl-announce] New release 0.13.0 (Was: [rdnzl-devel]
	LoadWithPartialName vs Load)
Message-ID: <b56421a00911121257v1a76b3c3j396ae7a8d349be07@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Raymond, I've just made a new release.  I made a few cosmetic
changes, so please check if I didn't break anything.


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've had a little startup trouble with RDNZL, but ?this is mainly due to my
> lack of familiarity with .NET. The use of Load instead of
> LoadWithPartialName will most likely not be noticed by most people, but will
> provide (IMO) more helpful behaviour in case of errors. It can also be
> extended, at some later point, to use fully-qualified assembly names.
>
> The enclosed patch includes the trivial change to load-assembly, as well as
> a new macro called do-rdnzl-container. do-rdnzl-container does for general
> enumerable collections what do-rdnzl-arrays does for arrays.
>
> Thank you for making rdnzl available!
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 22:16 , Edi Weitz wrote:
>
>> Hi Raymond,
>>
>> I have to admit that I rarely, if ever, used RDNZL myself. ?I started
>> writing it for fun and only finished it because I gave a talk about
>> it. ?At that time I was ambitious enough to bring it into a usable
>> state, but as I didn't have any serious projects relying on it, I
>> didn't keep track with .NET development and I'm sure it's out of tune
>> now.
>>
>> If you have changes to make RDNZL better, I'm happy to accept patches,
>> but I won't be able to test or evaluate them due to lack of time.
>> I'll simply pack them into a new release if they follow the usual
>> patch guidelines:
>>
>> ?http://weitz.de/patches.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Edi.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm trying to use rdnzl to interface with certain .NET libraries.
>>> These libraries have a callback mechanism that requires me to subclass
>>> a C# class (or implement a C# interface) with two specific methods. I
>>> haven't seen any mention that RDNZL can be used to subclass C# classes
>>> (which I guess would be non-trivial to do), so I'm guessing that I
>>> need to write a C# wrapper class for interfacing with Lisp.
>>>
>>> I'm having certain problems with this, probably caused by some .NET
>>> details that I haven't (yet) understood. As part of unravelling this,
>>> I've discovered that import-assembly calls load-assembly and that a
>>> failure in load-assembly will cause a null assembly to be returned,
>>> from which import-assembly will import exactly zero items. In other
>>> words, any errors from load-assembly will not be signalled until
>>> later.
>>>
>>> The MS documentation states that LoadWithPartialName (as used by
>>> load-assembly) is an obsolete call, and that that
>>> System.Reflection.Assembly.Load() should be used instead. Load() can
>>> even be used with partial names, like this:
>>>
>>> (defun load-assembly-2 (name)
>>> ?(let ((fullname (new "System.Reflection.AssemblyName")))
>>> ? (setf [%Name fullname] name)
>>> ? [System.Reflection.Assembly.Load fullname]))
>>>
>>> I've just tried this, and load-assembly-2 gives an exception which is
>>> transferred perfectly through RDNZL in cases where load-assembly
>>> returns null.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Raymond Wiker
>>>
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