On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > 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".
Thanks for the perspective. Are there any good alternatives (especially that would be less of an "external" dependency)? - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
