On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >> After reading this http://bugs.python.org/issue23085 and remembering >> struggling >> having our own patches into cpython's libffi (but not into libffi itself), I >> wonder, is there any reason any more for libffi being included in CPython? > > We use it for ctypes, so there's certainly still a need. Are you asking > whether we need a fork of it as opposed to treating it like an external (like > OpenSSL)?
yes (why is there a copy of libffi in the cpython source). And I'm asking not why it landed there, but why it is still there _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
