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

[Luís Oliveira]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Michael Raskin <f9cef2aa at yandex.ru> 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 UFFI and make it use CFFI-UFFI-COMPAT through a
uffi-compat/uffi.asd. ASDF-Install doesn't quite fit in this scenario,
no.


>>> So maybe you could take the second option and not bind UFFI nickname on ECL.
>> That sounds like a sensible thing to do, along with a style warning
>> perhaps. Can you confirm that such a warning wouldn't conflict with
>> your asdf-install efforts?
>
> Well, ASDF tolerates style-warnings successfully. As far as I remember
> ASDF-Install doesn't look beyond what ASDF tells it about package health.

I will make this tweak to uffi-compat. I still think you should
explicitly change your .asd to not depend on uffi-compat when running
on ECL. (I would also advise you to use something like clbuild rather
than asdf-install, but that's another matter. :-))

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Luís Oliveira
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