Re: [Gcl-devel] ACL's new stuff - semi-offtopic

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  The one thing I'd like for gcl is a default binary ABI for
third party libraries, as opposed to the approach of building an
interface for each one by hand.  Like using fortran libs from C.
Don't really know how to do it interpreted, but for compilation, one
ought to be able to include the library header and the user's library
call in a C file and have the compiler catch usage errors as normal.

Not any time soon, alas.

Take care,

C Y <address@hidden> writes:

> I just looked at the feature list for ACL 6.2, and they have added both
> a GTK binding and an ORB implimentation.  Obviously GCL isn't to the
> point where this kind of problem is being looked at, but I was
> wondering - are there standards for this king of thing, or does
> everyone kind of make up their own?  If not, if/when we get to these
> kinds of things, would it be good to try and impliment them in such a
> way as to be compatible with ACL?  (They seem to have reasonably
> extensive documentation.)
> 
> I apologize if this is offtopic/rambling.  Bedtime.
> 
> CY
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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