[IronPython] Announcement: Project to get some CPython C extensions running under IronPython

[Curt Hagenlocher]

On 10/19/07, Giles Thomas <giles.thomas at resolversystems.com> wrote:
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> A question - if we were trying to produce something that, at a source
> level, looked like the CPython extensions API, is there any easy way
> that we could get that to be able to call back to IronPython?  I can
> imagine something like an init() function on the managed side that could
> pass a number of delegates over to the unmanaged code so that they could
> be called back at a later point, but is there a more elegant solution?


You could define a COM / COM-like interface (or set of interfaces),
implement them in C# and pass them to the C code.  This is definitely
cleaner but has the disadvantage of a tighter binding between the two parts
and a potentially much more painful versioning story.

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Curt Hagenlocher
curt at hagenlocher.org
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