Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Robert Bradshaw, 28.10.2009 10:45:
>   
>> On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>     
>>> Mark Lodato, 24.10.2009 17:49:
>>>       
>>>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> There's also #434 about --embed not working in Py3. Mark, did you  
>>>>> test your
>>>>> patch under Py3.1?
>>>>>           
>>>> I saw that bug, and cython_freeze has the exact same problems as
>>>> --embed.  I'm working on a fix now.
>>>>         
>>> ... any news from this front?
>>>       
>> Yes, see
>>
>> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/439
>>     
>
> Mark, thanks a lot for doing that. I hope you copied the wchar_t adaptation
> part from somewhere, looks like a lot of work otherwise.
>
> One thing that strikes me, however, is the amount of code duplication. I
> think we should put cython_freeze into the Cython package (e.g. as
> Cython/Compiler/MainFunction.py), so that the compiler can use it to
> generate a main() function, and just add a __main__ execution body at the
> end that runs from the command line. Distutils could still install the
> module as a "cython_freeze" script in /usr/bin then, and the shipped
> bin/cython_freeze would simply import and run
> Cython/Compiler/MainFunction.py (so that you don't need to install Cython
> to get a runnable script).
>
> Another thing I noticed is the use of PyMem_Malloc() and friends. I'm not
> sure if it's safe to use those before initialising the Python interpreter.
> Anyway, I think that plain malloc() and free() make more sense here.
>   
They require the GIL, last time I looked, so should probably be avoided.

Dag Sverre
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