[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> We actually have a couple of Solaris buildbots already - as I
>> understand it, the issue there isn't Solaris as such, it's being able
>> to use the Sun compiler instead of GCC to compile ctypes/libffi.
> 
> Does that mean that we need access to the Sun compiler or that the Sun
> compiler has bugs which prevent ctypes from compiling?

Neither, nor. ctypes (or, rather, libffi) has code specific to gcc
(or, rather, the GNU assembler) that makes the Sun compiler reject
it. IIRC, it chokes on the attempt to compile assembler code that
has C preprocessor macros in it (can't test it right now).

Regards,
Martin