[Python-Dev] Python Software Foundation seeks mentors and students for Google Summer of Code

[Thomas Heller]

Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
>>>>>> Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Please add your project ideas to the existing set at
> 
>>     http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode
> 
> I'd like to see ctypes supported on GCC ARM platforms. ARM is the only major
> Debian architecture that's not supported by ctypes. The underlying issue is
> lack of closure API support for ARM in libffi. I see a patch available at
> http://handhelds.org/~pb/arm-libffi.dpatch, that should be hopefully a good
> starting point. ctypes CVS has a libffi_arm_wince directory, which also
> seems to support closure API.

I guess you should add this idea to one of the wiki pages (or did you already,
and I missed it?)

Thomas