[fpc-devel] RTTI interface & variant late binding issue (mORMot)

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, Florian Klämpfl wrote:

> Am 07.02.2015 um 13:59 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
>> On 07/02/15 13:19, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>>
>>>> The libffi license is basically a BSD license, that's no problem at all:
>>>> https://github.com/atgreen/libffi/blob/master/LICENSE
>>>
>>> I am not a proponent of third-party dependencies.
>>
>> I am not a proponent of reimplementing everything but the kitchen sink
>> because of other people's adversity to reusing existing solutions.
>
> Indeed, but even leaving the very unpleasant license aside, depending on third party libraries
> depending on libc is an issue on linux and an even bigger issue on windows not to mention rare
> platforms like amiga or msdos. While using libffi might work for the platforms you are mainly using,
> for most other platforms third party dependencies are a pain.

My point too.

Michael.