[Vm-dev] Merging FFI and Alien

[Dimitris Chloupis]

how this affect UFFI ?

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 3:10 PM Luc Fabresse <luc.fabresse at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-01-24 13:56 GMT+01:00 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com>:
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>> On 24 Jan 2016, at 13:38, Luc Fabresse <luc.fabresse at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Esteban,
>>
>> Question: why not "just" introducing Alien's callbacks in FFI and rename
>> it (e.g. FFI-callbacks)?
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>> That would be simpler, no?
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>> no is not :)
>> Callbacks works with Aliens, who are different than regular
>> ExternalAddresses, then you need Aliens i.
>> In the future, that could be a project (to modify callback part of
>> plugin)… but for now faster approach is what I’m describing :)
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> I was suspecting that I forgot part of this complicated story ;-)
> Thanks for clarifying,
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> Luc
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>> cheers,
>> Esteban
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>> - no Alien's history in FFI repo
>> - not the full Alien's code (callout mechanism, ...) in FFI codebase
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>> - ...
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> #Luc
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>> 2016-01-24 12:57 GMT+01:00 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com>:
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>>>
>>> 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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