Re: [Jython-dev] (no subject)

[Frank W. <fwi...@gm...>]

On 9/3/07, Wayne Meissner <wme...@gm...> wrote:
>
>
> Frank Wierzbicki wrote:
> > On 9/3/07, Frank Wierzbicki <fwi...@gm...> wrote:
> JNA supports and comes with binaries for most of the operating systems
> the Sun JDK supports - linux/i386, linux/amd64, win32, macosx/ppc,
> macosx/i386, solaris/x86, solaris/sparc, solaris/sparc64, freebsd/i386.
>   Windows/amd64 and solaris/amd64 are the only exceptions I can think of.
>
> But regardless of that, you probably still want to make it pluggable so
> when something better comes along (which always happens in software
> development) you can switch to that.
>
> Other options are using C/Invoke
> http://www.nongnu.org/cinvoke/index.html or libffi and writing enough
> java/JNI to interface with it.
>
> When called from jython, the JNA API is pretty narrow - only a handful
> of methods.  You could abstract them, use a JNA backend initially, then
> switch to a BSD-licensed backend when you have one ready.
Thanks for the extra information -- this convinces me more that this
should be written in a plugin style.

Philip: does any of this deter you from giving it a try?  I would love
to see better support for os calls in Jython -- and JRuby can be a
nice prototype for us in these areas...

-Frank