[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>> After reading this http://bugs.python.org/issue23085 and remembering struggling
>> having our own patches into cpython's libffi (but not into libffi itself), I
>> wonder, is there any reason any more for libffi being included in CPython?
>
> We use it for ctypes, so there's certainly still a need. Are you asking whether we need a fork of it as opposed to treating it like an external (like OpenSSL)?

yes (why is there a copy of libffi in the cpython source). And I'm
asking not why it landed there, but why it is still there