On 11/30/10 3:31 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Vitja Makarov<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I don't like the idea to add one more external dependency. But if that >> really helps its okay. > > It's not an external dependency if it ships with Python. Actually, > ctypes didn't ship with Python until 2.5, so that may be an issue. I'm > thinking we'd only use it where we couldn't do it otherwise.
ctypes/libffi is deliberately considered an optional component of Python for several reasons, one of which is the lack of support on certain platforms. I would say that it exists in a somewhat unique middle ground between "ships with Python" and "external dependency". -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
