On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:10:14 +0200 Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, sure. The point is, such bugs are unlikely to appear at a fast rate... Also, I don't understand why libffi issues would affect cffi any less than it affects ctypes, at least in the compiler-less mode of operation.
My point here was only about shipping own libffi vs using the system one (and it does affect cffi equally with or without compiler)
So what? If ctypes used the system libffi as cffi does, it would by construction be at least portable as cffi is. The only reason the bundled libffi was patched at some point was to be *more* portable than vanilla libffi is.
So, really, I don't see how switching from ctypes to cffi solves any of this.
You're missing my point. Ripping off the libffi from CPython is a good idea to start with. Maybe deprecating ctypes is *also* a good idea, but it's a separate discussion point. It certainly does not solve the libffi problem.