On 16.08.2012, at 22:28, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Many applications do not need FFI, so it including would add
> unnecessary (in many cases) bits to the footprint.
> 
> FFI is a one-click install from SqueakMap, which can be accessed
> programmatically via the Installer class, which is included with
> Squeak.
> 
> HTH.

Right. Also, if we included it by default, people might think it is okay to use for providing basic functions. If FFI calls started to creep into the basic image we would lose the big advantage of platform independence. 

- Bert -

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> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:16 PM, kilon <thekilon at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I was wondering why I need to install FFI and why it is not included by
>> default. Any programming language I have used included at least a single FFI
>> with it in its implementations or at least something similar.
>> 
>> Is there a specfic reason why its not included ?
>> 
>> 
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