[python-committers] Redoing the C API?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le 03/03/2016 19:38, Brett Cannon a écrit :
> 
> Ignoring the potential to crash the interpreter (I personally don't care
> but some do), is the maintenance issue we have with ctypes (or at least
> that's my hang-up with it). I think we still have not figured out what
> code we have patched and so no one has been willing to update to a newer
> version of libffi. I think Zachary looked into it and got some distance
> but never far enough to feel comfortable with trying to update things.
> 
> But I thought CFFI's ABI in-line solution matched what ctypes did?

I think it does more or less, which is why precisely I would find it
gratuitous to deprecate ctypes.

As for the maintenance problem, ok, but we might end up with the same
problems with cffi (both rely on libffi after all).

Regards

Antoine.