Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add xl ocaml bindings [and 1 more messages]

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add xl ocaml bindings"):
> Is it worth investing the time up front to define a (simple) IDL and to
> generate the C header and language bindings from that?

I think so but this is not a trivial problem, and we shouldn't block
new language bindings on the availability of an IDL compiler.

> Are there any existing IDLs which would meet our needs?

We've had a look, but unfortunately there aren't really.

Marc - A. Dahlhaus writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add xl ocaml bindings"):
> maybe http://www.swig.org/ might help in this case.

Urgh.  Swig takes a pretty unpleasant approach.  I've been involved in
other projects which used it and it was more trouble than it was
worth.

Ian.

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