On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:17:23 +1100, Alain Picard <Alain.Picard@memetrics.com> wrote:
Does anybody have an opinion on this situation?
Hi Alain, the situation you're encountering is basically just a "historical" remnant. If you'll search the UFFI mailing list archives from around 2005, you'll find out that I was the one who modified UFFI to make application delivery without hard-coded paths even possible. You can now (in UFFI) specify a library simply as "foo.so" or "foo.dll" and it will be searched for in the operating system's standard locations. However, I had written CL-GD a) before I made this change and b) even before I started to use LispWorks as my main Lisp. And I haven't used CL-GD much since. So, yes, if you want to send a patch to a) defer loading of the library and to b) make the location of the library something the OS should take care of, I'm all for it - please send a patch. I'm just too busy right now to fix this myself and, as I said, this doesn't have very high priority for me. Thanks, Edi. http://weitz.de/patches.html