March 3, 2016
5:17 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 at 06:26 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
2016-03-03 13:40 GMT+01:00 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>:
Adding cffi (including its dependencies) to the standard library was approved-in-principle a couple of years ago, and I believe the one technical issue with a lack of support for ahead-of-time compilation of the extension module has since been addressed, (...)
Hum, I also recall vaguely a discussion about pycparser dependency of cffi.
Yep, the issue was pycparser which depended on PLY. At the time Alex Gaynor said he and David Beazley were planning to fix a bunch of things in PLY and that it would be best to hold off until PLY was cleaned up enough to go into the stdlib. That obviously didn't happen. :)