Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r4376:025ab705bd67 Date: 2012-07-26 18:05 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/025ab705bd67/
Log: Draft diff --git a/blog/draft/cffi-release-0.2.rst b/blog/draft/cffi-release-0.2.rst new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/draft/cffi-release-0.2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +CFFI release 0.2 +================ + +Hi everybody, + +We released `CFFI 0.2`_ (now as a full release candidate). CFFI is a +way to call C from Python. + +This release is only for CPython 2.6 or 2.7. PyPy support is coming in +the ``ffi-backend`` branch, but not finished yet. CPython 3.x would be +easy but requires the help of someone. + +The package is available `on bitbucket`_ as well as `documented`_. You +can also install it straight from the python package index (pip). + +.. _`on bitbucket`: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi +.. _`CFFI 0.2`: http://cffi.readthedocs.org +.. _`documented`: http://cffi.readthedocs.org + +* Contains numerous small changes and support for more C-isms. + +* The biggest news is the support for `installing packages`__ that use + ``ffi.verify()`` on machines without a C compiler. Arguably, this + lifts the last serious restriction for people to use CFFI. + +* Partial list of smaller changes: + + - mappings between 'wchar_t' and Python unicodes + + - the introduction of ffi.NULL + + - a possibly clearer API for ``ffi.new()``: e.g. ``ffi.new("int *")`` + instead of ``ffi.new("int")`` + + - and of course a plethora of smaller bug fixes + +* CFFI uses ``pkg-config`` to install itself if available. This helps + locate ``libffi`` on modern Linuxes. Mac OS/X support is available too + (see the detailed `installation instructions`__). Win32 should work out + of the box. Win64 has not been really tested yet. + +.. __: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#distributing-modules-using-cffi +.. __: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#macos-10-6 + + +Cheers, +Armin Rigo and Maciej Fijałkowski _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
