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From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: kawa@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: SRFI 170 (POSIX API) for Kawa
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:58:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5865887e-6b2a-7868-ffa1-c8ea7bdcde6d@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+ghDQ_3KPn3JdJFc3iLhr2d-ruBCESj+fW6qdtXx+f+u7vTCQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/15/20 5:02 PM, Jamison Hope wrote:
> I agree [JNR] shouldn't be a required dependency.  But it would also be
> handy to be able to use the SRFI in conjunction with a stock binary
> Kawa release, and not have to do a custom configuration.
> 
> Per, can the srfi loading in ImportFromLibrary.java cross jar
> boundaries?

IIRC ImportFromLibrary.java doesn't know anything about jar boundaries.
It just searches in the classpath.

If so, one option might be for SRFI97Map to map 170 to
> some other named class that isn't included in kawa.jar, and then
> provide a separately-compiled kawa-srfi170.jar or whatever that did
> rely on JNR-Posix or other such native code.  Then if that other jar
> is in the CLASSPATH, then (import (srfi 170)) loads/uses it, and if
> not, then it doesn't work, or maybe we instead fall back on a
> Java-only subset.

Should be possible, as long as we make sure failure modes (error messages etc)
are reasonable.

There may be some interaction with Java 9 modules; it's been a while since I looked into those.

> I've never used JNR.  My impression is that it's like JNA but..
> better?  Or at least newer?

I believe newer.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/

      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-22  9:46 Lassi Kortela
2020-02-22 16:08 ` Duncan Mak
2020-02-22 16:40   ` Per Bothner
2020-07-14 21:10     ` Duncan Mak
2020-07-15  4:16       ` Per Bothner
2020-07-15  6:59         ` Arvydas Silanskas
2020-07-16  0:02         ` Jamison Hope
2020-07-16  4:58           ` Per Bothner [this message]

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