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

[Ganesan Rajagopal]

>>>>> Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:

> 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?)

I started editing the page, then I thought I'd first post here to get your
feedback :-).

Ganesan

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Ganesan Rajagopal (rganesan at debian.org)