<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>>On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Roland Averkamp <<a href="mailto:roland.averkamp@gmx.de">roland.averkamp@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Is it really necesary to use the Babel and Alexandria libraries in CFFI?<br>
> Now CFFI depends on two libraries and every other system which uses<br>
> CFFI needs these two libraries too.<br>
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That's an issue that was taken into consideration.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>As a mere user, I was also a bit frustrated trying to compile the newest CFFI with all<br>its dependencies, especially because these extra packages had RCS's that <br>were not on my machine. The new CFFI was a long chain of upgrades and installs.<br>
For a newbie, this could be a real roadblock, and each additional step will cause <br>attrition of the userbase.<br><br>Might it be a good idea to repackage these libraries as TRIVIAL-FEATURES-CFFI, BABEL-CFFI, etc,<br>and distribute these along with cffi? They would still be there, would be easy to upgrade, but<br>
would be invisible to the casual cffi user.<br><br>Jan<br><br><br><br></div>