[mcclim-devel] making freetype more portable

[rpgoldman at real-time.com]

>>>>> "DL" == David Lichteblau <david at lichteblau.com> writes:

    DL> Quoting Christophe Rhodes (csr21 at cam.ac.uk):
    >> > 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.

    DL> Translating from alien to cffi is rather easy.  It worked well
    DL> for me with clim-cairo.  It is mostly a matter of
    DL> search&replace.

The reason I was worried about doing this was that the file I would
search and replace in clearly states that it is auto-generated (sbcl
groveler?) and should not be manually edited...

I should, of course, have mentioned this in my original email.

I take it from the above that I should just ignore that warning and
dive in...

thanks,
R