[Python-Dev] cffi in stdlib

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

>  27 February 2013 18:24, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 27 February 2013 11:53, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I think it means you can't use the ABI version and specify the calling
> >> convention. It's a reasonable bug report (the calling convention on
> >> API version works though)
> >
> > That would be a deal-breaker for my use case of quick scripts working
> > with the Windows API on a machine with no C compiler. I'd have to use
> > ctypes in that case until cffi had this feature.
>
> One other use case for the ABI level over the API level - the ABI
> level (no C extension) can be used across Python versions, where the
> API level needs a separate compiled extension per Python version. This
> can be a big deal on Windows at least, where users (not developers)
> with no compilers on their systems are common.
>
>
Is that still true for Windows even with the stable ABI and the dropping of
narrow/wide Unicode builds?
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