On Wednesday, February 24, 2010, at 08:20AM, "Thomas Heller" <thel...@ctypes.org> wrote: >Matthias Klose schrieb: >> I would like to update the internal copy of libffi from the 3.0.5 release to >> 3.0.9 (plus an ARM specific patch checked in after the 3.0.9 release). Is >> this >> ok for the trunk and the py3kbranch? I only can check linux targets and >> watch >> the buildds, so I would like to ask for tests on other targets. > >Obviously I don't do a good job maintaining the 'Python libffi fork', so >I have nothing against you or other people doing my work ;-). > >On the other hand: >Things have changed since the first inclusion of ctypes into the Python >distribution. There were no 'official' libffi releases at that time; >now there are regular releases. Should the Python distribution be changed >to use the system libffi by default - the '--with-system-ffi' configure option? >Is a system libffi library available on OS X? On other systems? >The windows fork must probably stay...
OSX has a system libffi on OSX 10.5 or later. The binary installers cannot use that because libffi is not present on 10.4, and I'm also not 100% sure that libffi on 10.5 is fully binary compatible with that on 10.6. > >> The libffi subdirectories for testsuite, doc and man are currently not >> checked >> in. Should these be kept out, or should the complete libffi release be >> checked in? > >Depends on the answer to your first question, of course. The libffi testsuite >requires >dejagnus. I know there once was a Python script, written by Ronald Ossouren, >which >was able to execute the tests. I have a testrunner in pyobjc that is able to run the libffi tests without dejagnu. I'm willing to contribute that to python. Ronald > >-- >Thanks, >Thomas >_______________________________________________ >python-committers mailing list >python-committers@python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > > _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
