Re: [Visionaries] The DG-Scheme Foreign Language Interface

[Peter Minten]

Peter Minten wrote:

> The FLI wrapper is a separate process and writen in an appropriate 
> language for calling the foreign lib. The FLI wrapper loads the foreign 
> lib. When the DGS interpreter, at the command of the DGS code, send a 
> function call the FLI wrapper reads it and calls the right function. 
> Then the FLI wrapper sends back the result.

Change, in order to close some holes in the DG-Scheme copyleft the FLI wrapper
will now not use a pipe to communicate with the interpreter but will expose a
simple C interface (about 1 function). This doesn't change the rest of the
system very much, but it has a huge impact on the licensing. Specifically this
makes the GPL+LE of the baselib much harder to circumvent.

Oh, and to cure a little kludge. It's allowed for an interpreter to directly 
call code in it's own language, provided this looks like FLI'ing. This doesn't 
remove the need for FLI modules for those languages however.

Greetings,

Peter