Re: Hello-C mailing list?



Juanjo wrote: 
I had a look at CFFI and it does not seem to even contain a fraction of
what UFFI provides. I thought Hello-C was supposed to be a form from
UFFI, rather than a completely new library written from scratch.

To find out what is going on and throw in your own ideas, find the Fetter (FFI autogen) project on common-lisp.net and sign up for the fetter-devel mailing list. Because of the close relationship between the two projects, we thought we would discuss them both on the Fetter list.

Hello-C itself is my recent fork of UFFI, mostly adding callbacks from C to Lisp. We also like some work we see in CFFI, which includes a UFFI compatibility module (how much I did not notice).

Who knows where this will end up? All projects have friendly licenses and are free to borrow from each other. Hello-C by name may cease to exist or may end up with its own project. Meanwhile the CFFI developer has responded positively to Hello-C extending his work, so the source will be in a branch of the CFFI CVS tree for now.

Hope that is not too confusing. :)


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