Re: [cffi-devel] Fix CFFI-UFFI-compat on ECL

I am trying to simplify ASDF-Install'ing Cells-GTK on different platforms. When trying with ECL, I find the following problem: CFFI defines uffi-compat package with "uffi" alias. Comment even expresses doubt whether it is a good idea. ECL has its own UFFI. So CFFI should either not declare such nickname for ECL or remove the alias from "FFI" package. I think the second is a better (although marginally more complex) behavior, because it increases portability and reduces number of people who notice implementation quirks of UFFI package.

Why load cffi's uffi-compat if ECL has its own UFFI? I don't see the increase in portability. - Daniel