[cffi-devel] CFFI foreign library error pathname patch

[Luís Oliveira]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Anton Kovalenko <anton at sw4me.com> wrote:
>> In this case, the error's LIBRARY-SPECIFICATION slot (or something
>> along those lines), could hold a string, a pathname, or s-exps whose
>> CARs are one of :OR, :DEFAULT, or :FRAMEWORK.
>
> When we want to provide a restart for automatic library installation,
> the most useful thing is a list of *all pathnames actually tried*.
>
> We know that before the error is signalled, every pathname possible (for
> current implementation's feature set) has been tried. Collecting them
> along the way shouldn't be hard.  And I can't think of an
> "auto-installer" (or anything external to CFFI) for which the details of
> *why* those pathnames were used are somehow relevant.

Excellent point. I like this solution.

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Luís Oliveira
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