[Gd-hackers] Status of libraries in the Open Dylan distribution

[Hannes Mehnert]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Christian Chust wrote:
> the sources for Open Dylan contain a variety of libraries, some of which
> are not well documented and apparently not straightforward to build or
> use -- for example the corba and web library collections don't build on
> my Mac and even the Carbon interface doesn't work!
> 
> Is there any overview over the status of the different libraries -- like
> how well they are maintained at the moment, where they are expected to
> build cleanly or not and what magic you need to work before you can use
> them.

There is currently no overview what works where. I don't think anyone
has tried to use CORBA on unix yet. But the database backend seems to
work once the 'c-modifiers: "__stdcall"' is removed from the C-FFI binding.

The carbon interface is unfinished yet. I guess the web library
collections is not used anywhere at the moment and thus not maintained.
The maintainance status is currently best viewed with svn log...

As you said, it would be nice to have an overview which libraries work
where. Feel free to start such an overview in the wiki.

All core libraries are working on every platform, because the compiler
uses them. DUIM is known to work only on win32 so far.

> For example I would be interested in getting the CORBA stuff to work
> under Unix, which should not pose any fundamental problems such as
> dependencies on system specific libraries, but still I have no clue what
> to do to get it to work and there seem to be no instructions anywhere.

Sorry, I have only the obvious advice to look at the error messages...


Hannes