From: Beoran <beoran@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T07:01:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Standardizing FFI based wrappers

This proposal looks fine, I like FI::SDL, FFI:SDL_ttf,  FFI::Opengl, etc.

However I have some questions with regards to the practical implementation.
First of all, what to do with C libaries that consist of several 
physical .so (or .dll)
libraries but only have on C interface? Gnome/GTK comes to mind.

Also, what to do with forks or competing implementations?  I know in an 
ideal
world people should work together, but perhaps they won't.  Ruby alone has
four C based wrappers for SDL, namely RubySDL, Rubygame, RUDL and Gosu.
What to do in case two people wrap the same library?

Kind Regards,

Bjorn.