Re: [cffi-devel] memutil.lisp breaks compile

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Sebastian Tennant sebyte@smolny.plus.com wrote:

Luís is concerned about breaking things that depend on (or at least benefit from) his kludge (no offence intended).  Daniel Herring makes the point that hijacking names to provide upgarde/compatibility layers is a time-honoured tradition.

In my humble opinion, hijacking names works for comprehensive drop-in replacements based on consensus amongst parties.  CFFI is clearly not a comprehensive drop-in replacement for UFFI and there's clearly no consensus on the issue.  I'm therefore in favour of changing the name.

Patches for CFFI and, most importantly, clbuild are very much welcome. :-)