On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 10:20 AM Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18. 7. 2026 16:15, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > > Hi, > > When testing 1.15.0-rc3, I stumbled on check-ctypes-python. That currently > fails miserably: > > [[[ > python: can't open file '/home/dsg/ramdisk/svn_trunk2/none': [Errno 2] No > such file or directory > sed: can't read subversion/bindings/ctypes-python/svn_all.py: No such file > or directory > cd > /home/dsg/ramdisk_backstorage/svn_trunk2/subversion/bindings/ctypes-python; > \ > /bin/bash "/home/dsg/ramdisk_backstorage/svn_trunk2/libtool" --tag=CC > --silent --mode=execute `for f in > /home/dsg/ramdisk_backstorage/svn_trunk2/subversion/*/*.la; do echo -dlopen > $f; done` python test/run_all.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "/home/dsg/ramdisk_backstorage/svn_trunk2/subversion/bindings/ctypes-python/test/run_all.py", > line 22, in <module> > import setup_path > File > "/home/dsg/ramdisk_backstorage/svn_trunk2/subversion/bindings/ctypes-python/test/setup_path.py", > line 31, in <module> > import csvn.core > File > "/home/dsg/ramdisk_backstorage/svn_trunk2/subversion/bindings/ctypes-python/csvn/core/__init__.py", > line 20, in <module> > import functions > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'functions' > make: *** [Makefile:1050: check-ctypes-python] Error 1 > ]]] > > I've started fixing errors one by one and I have a 444 line diff, but I'm > no closer to making it work. > > Given that last substantial commit was somewhere around 2011, this is > probably yet another feature we are not maintaining as well as we should. I > believe a lot of things have not been updated from Py2 to Py3 standards but > it seems to be other stuff as well. > > > > Ctypes-python is broken and unmaintained. Because of that, nobody uses it. > > > Is there any advantage having a ctypes-binding over the swig-binding? > Otherwise, I think we should axe this one as well - in this particular case > (since it currently doesn't work) - I'm on the SIGKILL squad. > > > Theoretically, one can build better bindings with ctypes than Swig, > because you get a more "native" mapping of types. But we didn't. I think 15 > years of brokenness is long enough. > > -- Brane > > I'm glad there's a good bit of housecleaning going on around here. We've accumulated so much cruft over the years, it makes my head spin. +1 to axe the ctypes bindings. Cheers, Nathan
