[Python-ideas] discouraging direct use of the C-API

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 May 2015 at 17:41, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > As for CFFI, is the ownership/maintenance issue solved yet? IIRC we have
> > some really outdated versions in the CPython tree and nobody wants to
> step
> > in and upgrade these to the latest CFFI, for some reason (such as that
> that
> > would actually break a lot of code because the latest version is so
> > different from the version we currently include?).
>
> I think you are referring to libffi (used by ctypes) here rather than cffi.
>

Oh dear. I think you're right. :-(

Forget I said anything. Naming is hard.

I'm still not sure how realistic it is to try and deprecate the C API.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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