[mcclim-devel] Freetype and CFFI

[Robert Goldman]

Martin Rydstr|m wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 07:40:47AM -0600, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
>> I'm afraid that I can't help you much beyond that --- I didn't actually 
>> *understand* freetype, I just removed the SBCL dependencies from 
>> mcclim-freetype (which is really mcclim-freetype-sbcl, AFAICT).
> 
> mcclim-freetype works fine with CMUCL, too. (Although you might need to
> be running telent-clx, rather than the CLX that comes with CMUCL.)
> 
> ',mr
> 
OK.  I stand corrected.  Nevertheless, I argue that a freetype approach 
based on CFFI, which is portable over non-CMU-derived lisps as well as 
CMU-derived lisps is preferable, prima facie.
Now, there may be some additional considerations that would make the 
CMU-derived-specific approach better, but I don't know of any.  If you 
do, please let me know.

Note I'm not trying to brag about my code and denigrate others.  All I 
did was tweak the CMU-derived-specific approach to backend to CFFI 
instead, a pretty minor change (and one that I did with virtually no 
understanding of the code.

Cheers,
R