[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: ffcall maintainership

[Hubert Chan]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:32:20 -0400, Hubert Chan said:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:10:24 +0200, Matthias Klose said:
>> just GNUstep depends on ffcall, please could you one of you take over
>> this package or build it as part of clisp? Please note that the
>> package has changes for arm and mipsel.

> Since ffcall is part of the clisp tarball (and the package in
> ~doko/tmp uses the ffcall from there, rather than the plain upstream
> version), it probably makes most sense to maintain it as part of
> clisp.  But if Peter doesn't want to maintain ffcall, I can take it.
> Another alternative is that we can build it as part of clisp, but I'll
> look after the ffcall bits.

OK, it's been a couple of weeks and I haven't heard from Peter, so I'll
upload ffcall.

BTW, ffcall is also used by mlpcap, not just GNUstep.

Post-etch, I may consider switching GNUstep from ffcall to ffi.

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