[python-committers] updating libffi to 3.0.9?

[Thomas Heller]

Matthias Klose schrieb:
> I would like to update the internal copy of libffi from the 3.0.5 release to 
> 3.0.9 (plus an ARM specific patch checked in after the 3.0.9 release).  Is this 
> ok for the trunk and the py3kbranch?  I only can check linux targets and watch 
> the buildds, so I would like to ask for tests on other targets.

Obviously I don't do a good job maintaining the 'Python libffi fork', so
I have nothing against you or other people doing my work ;-).

On the other hand:
Things have changed since the first inclusion of ctypes into the Python
distribution.  There were no 'official' libffi releases at that time;
now there are regular releases.  Should the Python distribution be changed
to use the system libffi by default - the '--with-system-ffi' configure option?
Is a system libffi library available on OS X?  On other systems?
The windows fork must probably stay...

> The libffi subdirectories for testsuite, doc and man are currently not checked 
> in. Should these be kept out, or should the complete libffi release be checked in?

Depends on the answer to your first question, of course.  The libffi testsuite requires
dejagnus.  I know there once was a Python script, written by Ronald Ossouren, which
was able to execute the tests.

-- 
Thanks,
Thomas