Re: [Chicken-users] let-macro

[Andreas Rottmann]

Tony Garnock-Jones <address@hidden> writes:

> Ariel Rios wrote:
>> Dunno if
>> it is better to start from scratch or to try to continue with your work.
>> I still don't understand chicken completely so it might be a better
>> exercise to start anew. What do you think?
>
> It is a huge job. Chicken has fairly unique FFI requirements (mostly
> to do with memory management) that make wrapping GTK+ a real
> challenge. (Also the design of GTK+ is itself working against you,
> fairly often.) If you were to start from scratch, perhaps SWIG might
> get you a fair way; I haven't yet managed to get round to
> experimenting with SWIG and chicken. If SWIG isn't going to work for
> wrapping GTK+, then in my opinion a from-scratch rework will end up
> repeating a lot of the code I wrote - but of course I might have
> missed a better way of doing things :-)
>
<plug> 
You might also want to investigate the feasibility of writing a
Chicken G-Wrap[0] backend. The guile-gnome backend already provides a
lot of infrastructure for wrapping the GNOME stack of libraries that
might be eleveraged for other bindings as well.
</plug>

Cheers, Rotty
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