[Vm-dev] Merging FFI and Alien

[Luc Fabresse]

Hi Esteban,

Question: why not "just" introducing Alien's callbacks in FFI and rename it
(e.g. FFI-callbacks)?

That would be simpler, no?
- no Alien's history in FFI repo
- not the full Alien's code (callout mechanism, ...) in FFI codebase
- ...

Cheers,

#Luc

2016-01-24 12:57 GMT+01:00 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com>:

>
> Hi,
>
> Recently I’ve been talking with Eliot and we came to the conclusion that
> FFI and Alien repositories needs to be merged.
> Our rational is that 1) both are different ways of doing the same (often
> with same primitives) and much more important 2) Alien contains the the “de
> facto” callback mechanism supported by the VM.
> Keeping them separated and treated as two different things is negative and
> an important source of confusion for people willing to do FFI this days.
> So, here is my proposal (already talked with Eliot).
>
> 1) unify http://source.squeak.org/FFI and
> http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien into http://source.squeak.org/FFI
> That means copying into FFI repo all Alien history.
>
> 2) Rename Alien package into FFI-Alien (extract the Alien-Win32 category
> into its own package)
>
> 3) Create a ConfigurationOfFFI who takes properly FFI and FFI-Alien, etc.
>
> That means also deprecate Alien project in squeaksource (which usually is
> just put a WARNING text in home page :P)
>
> So… if nobody has a anything against this plan, I will do it next week :)
>
> cheers!
> Esteban
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