[mcclim-devel] making freetype more portable

[Christophe Rhodes]

rpgoldman at real-time.com writes:

> Does anyone have any suggestions about how one might go about making
> mcclim-freetype portable to other lisps?  Seems like right now it's
> only usable for cmucl and sbcl.
>
> I was thinking about either trying to translate the definer macros to
> acl ffi or, in the hopes of broader portability, to CFFI.  But it
> seems like the defining sublanguage for CMUCL & SBCL is fairly
> different from CFFI.
>
> CFFI-grovel seemed like another alternative.
>
> Any suggestions?

I'd suggest not bothering, and spending the time improving the gtkairo
backend instead: you get antialiased graphics as well as antialiased
text that way.

Cheers,

Christophe