[clbuild-devel] [cffi-devel] memutil.lisp breaks compile

[Luís Oliveira]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Sebastian Tennant
<sebyte at smolny.plus.com> wrote:
> Luís is concerned about breaking things that depend on (or at least benefit
> from) his kludge (no offence intended).  Daniel Herring makes the point that
> hijacking names to provide upgarde/compatibility layers is a time-honoured
> tradition.
>
> In my humble opinion, hijacking names works for comprehensive drop-in
> replacements based on consensus amongst parties.  CFFI is clearly not a
> comprehensive drop-in replacement for UFFI and there's clearly no consensus on
> the issue.  I'm therefore in favour of changing the name.

Patches for CFFI and, most importantly, clbuild are very much welcome. :-)

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Luís Oliveira
http://r42.eu/~luis/