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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/05/2015 19:56, Paul Moore wrote:
>
> Otherwise, it's mostly a matter of getting the build steps to work.
> Zach Ware got 32-bit builds going, and his approach (use git bash to
> run configure and keep a copy of the results) should in principle be
> fine for 64-bit, but I stalled because I've no way of testing a libffi
> build short of building the whole of Python and running the ctypes
> tests, which is both heavy handed and likely to obscure the root cause
> of any actual bugs found that way :-(
>
> Paul

Feel free to throw this or any other Windows issues my way.  I've all 
the time in the world to try stuff like this.

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Mark Lawrence