[pypy-commit] cffi default: add prominently 2 more design goals
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Mon Jun 18 12:15:25 CEST 2012
Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
Branch:
Changeset: r432:03d111b1cf81
Date: 2012-06-18 12:14 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/03d111b1cf81/
Log: add prominently 2 more design goals
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@
but all C89 should be, including macros (and including macro "abuses",
which you can `manually wrap`_ in saner-looking C functions).
+* We attempt to support both PyPy and CPython (although PyPy support is not
+ complete yet) with a reasonable path for other Python implementations like
+ IronPython and Jython.
+
+* Note that this project is **not** about embedding C in Python. Look for
+ ``weave.inline`` for this purpose. This is about calling existing C libraries
+ from Python.
+
.. _`LuaJIT's FFI`: http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html
.. _`Cython`: http://www.cython.org
.. _`SWIG`: http://www.swig.org/
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