[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2006-01-01 through 2006-01-15

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 26-jan-2006, at 13:29, Thomas Heller wrote:

> Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:54:51AM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>
>>> The current state is that ctypes uses GPL'd tools to build  
>>> libffi, and
>>> those can't be committed into Python SVN.
>>
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059937.html
>>
>> But http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/ 
>> 059938.html
>> was never responded to.
>
> Lack of time - sorry.
>
>> And licenses are fluid, it may be a piece of cake to
>> get one of those 'tools' un-GPL'ed, even if they are.
>
> I wouldn't even know whom to ask.

It shouldn't be too hard to use Python's main configure script to  
calculate
the information necessary to build libffi. A lot of it is already  
calculated
anyway (sizeof various type, endianness), some can be hardcoded  
(FFI_NO_RAW_API).

In PyObjC I just compile the files I need from my setup.py. But I  
have an easy task,
I just need to support two CPU architectures on one OS.

Ronald

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