[cffi-devel] Re: Use of Babel and Alexandria in CFFI

[Attila Lendvai]

> I don't mind how many dependencies CFFI has. It could have zero, or it could
> have 1000. All I care about is that a single action, (asdf-install:install
> :lispbuilder-sdl), will retrieve and install all dependencies.

while we discuss this, we should be aware of the fact that you can't
do much on the cffi front to solve this problem, unless you expect the
cffi developers to put a lot much more effort into packaging cffi and
all its dependencies.

installing/upgrading a random lisp library can be a pain because there
are no good tools that support it. putting a lot of effort into
feeding the current tools instead of using those resources to develop
better tools is not the best strategy in the long term.

just the 0.02 of a cffi user,

-- 
 attila

ps: yeah, i know that i should post code instead of trying to be wise
here, but i don't want people to think that the current situation is
the result of mere ignorance...