Tony Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ------------------------------------- > Adding ctypes to the standard library > ------------------------------------- > > Thomas Heller suggested that ctypes be included in core Python > (starting with 2.5). The common response was that while ctypes is a > useful, popular, mature module, it does make it very easy to get a > core dump, which violates the guideline that if you get a core dump > it's a bug in Python or in a third party extension or you're doing > something harebrained. On the other hand, it was pointed out that the > dl module suffers from the same problem, and is included without any > warnings (the documentation was later fixed to include warnings). > > Martin v. Löwis suggested making ctypes a dynamically loaded module > (ctypes.pyd), so administrators could remove it, and > I could also make it a separate option in the Windows installer, so > administrators could opt out of installing it. Everyone seemed happy > with prominent warnings in the documentation, and so this is how it > was checked in.
Well, it is *not* yet checked in. The current state is that ctypes uses GPL'd tools to build libffi, and those can't be committed into Python SVN. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059937.html Currently I tend to agree with Martin and drop the idea for now, but this probably doesn't belong into your summary ;-). Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
