[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:20:58 +0000
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> 
> You're ignoring that it's not maintained,

According to which metric/criterion?

changeset:   94932:86c9ef950288
user:        Steve Dower <steve.dower at microsoft.com>
date:        Tue Mar 10 09:56:38 2015 -0700
summary:     Issue #23606: Disable ctypes.util.find_library("c") on
Windows so tests are skipped while we figure out how best to approach
the CRT change

changeset:   94756:7c6e3358221a
user:        Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
date:        Thu Feb 26 15:27:57 2015 +0200
summary:     Silenced minor GCC warnings.

changeset:   94653:a84ae2ccd220
user:        Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
date:        Mon Feb 16 20:52:17 2015 +0200
summary:     Issue #23450: Fixed possible integer overflows.

[etc.]

> Who knows what
> improvements, bugfixes, etc. exist upstream in libffi that we lack because
> no one wants to go through and figure it out.

Well, who knows? How about you enlighten us about that?
And why do you think cffi, which *also* requires libffi, would be
better served in that regard?

Regards

Antoine.