On 11/30/10 4:01 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > 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)?
I'm afraid not. -- 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
