[Python-Dev] (libffi) Re: Copyright issue

[Thomas Heller]

Hye-Shik Chang <hyeshik at gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/30/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> Well done! Would you like to derive a Python patch from that?
>
> Yup. I'll do.
>
> On 1/30/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
>> That's great!  Would you like to integrate these changes into to ctypes
>> CVS repository yourself?  I indend to do a few releases still from
>> there, before the first Python 2.5.  If so, please tell me your SF
>> username and I'll add you as developer.
>>
>> Also, please note that all work should be done on the 'branch_1_0' CVS
>> branch - the HEAD is only experimental code (and not currently used).
>
> My SF username is perky.

Added.

> I'll try to make it portable but it'll
> lose some platforms through compilers because few of libffi
> sources are in preprocessed assembly (.S) which isn't supported
> by distutils yet.  So, we'll need tests on various compiler/platforms
> before the release.

Isn't it sufficient to append ".S" to self.compiler.src_extensions?

Thanks,

Thomas