[Python-Dev] Re: [C++-SIG] Python calling C++ issues

[David Ascher]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

[...]

> Well, like I said above, I haven't analyzed your posts for technical
> details, so I can't say whether you made avoidable mistakes.  But I
> definitely do agree with you that it is roughly 100 times harder than
> it needs to be, to use Python from C++.  The charter of this sig is to 
> fix that, by developing the additional software that would allow
> Python's compiled interface to be exploited from C++ "with ease".
> 
> The first and most basic issue, is compiling Python so it initializes
> C++ global objects correctly.  There is a patch on the sig's www site
> to help with that.

Any opinions from this esteemed body re: integrating said patch in the
main tree?

--david