[pypy-commit] cffi default: add prominently 2 more design goals

fijal noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
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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