On Tuesday 22 April 2008 12:18:47 Mark Glines wrote: > Ok. So if the OpenGL and crypto code didn't have to generate custom C > files, they wouldn't have to have all the extra infrastructure, right? > Just a test that gets "skip_all"ed if the library can't be loaded at > runtime, like pgsql has, no detection nonsense, no generation > nonsense, no config-script testing nonsense.
Right. > So is that the preferred method of implementing bindings for C > libraries? Or is there such a thing as a "preferred method", to begin > with? If we can get NCI to a state where we can do this more often than note (and here's hoping!), this is definitely the preferred approach. No C compiler required for users, for example. -- c
