Re: lgtk-0.0.3 - experimental gtk bindings for Common Lisp

>> How about the CL-GTK project? It is referenced from the language
>> bindings page on the gtk.org site. What are the differences with your
>> bindings actually?
>
> The long answer :-) is that I don't know in full detail. I started
> this project without looking too much at what others did, since
> whatever it was, it did not seem to help much. There is clg, untouched
> for at least 18 months, and I haven't seen it recomended on c.l.l. nor
> anywhere else.
>
> The socket based approach from cl-gtk seems to me a problem because it
> needs a client written in C at the other end of the socket. That
> implies writing C, with all the problems that that involves. I wanted
> to find a possibility to leverage the extra power CL gives. Once I got
> some details cleared, adding functionality seems a breeze.

> I ended up essentially reimplementing something like UFFI, which I
> hope to use some day to do bindings to other toolkits/software. I will
> be looking for another target as soon as I get some more functionality
> into lgtk.

Ok. I knew there was some problems with cl-gtk and clg (like socket or 
partial implementations)g. Great you've started a full FFI approach. By 
the way, I've looked some time ago to GTK bindings for other languages 
like Python and C# (using Mono). The guys have first developped a way 
to generate all these bindings from C headers. There is some .defs 
files describing GTK C headers with S-exprs. Do you know something 
about that?

-- 
Frederic Brunel