jamesjb@jamesjb.com writes:
It would be nice to figure out how to get the ASDF system to compile the DLL on Windows.
That would be a bad idea. Presumably most users of CFFI on MS-Windows don't have MS-VC (or Mingw). But IMHO all users should be entitled to run a testsuite.
I'm not sure I'd want to include the DLL in the repository as the risk of it not getting updated when the testsuite is updated is somewhat high [...]
IMHO not really a problem, because the .dll will stabilize, while the testsuite will continue to grow.
Strict solution: add a version number (foreign-var) to the .dll and check it when loading the testsuite. Then people will know when it is outdated and hope for a new one from the CFFI site. As I said, presumably the .dll will receive seldom updates.
Regards, Jorg Hohle.