8 Nov
2009
8 Nov
'09
12:26 p.m.
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. :-) -- Luís Oliveira http://r42.eu/~luis/