"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On the other hand it breaks one of the most fundamental Python >> guidelines: if you get a core dump (segfault etc.) it's a bug in >> Python or in a 3rd party extension, not in *your* Python code. An >> exception would have to be made for any code that uses ctypes, as it >> is usually trivial to cause core dumps with ctypes (I'd venture it's >> hard to avoid them ;-). >> >> I don't expect this to count against including ctypes; but I do want >> it to be dealt with somehow! > > I think the strongest point *for* ctypes is the inclusion of dl > in the source distribution, which has the very same flaws as > ctypes in terms of crashability. > > So as for dealing with it "somehow": I would make ctypes a dynamically > loaded module (ctypes.pyd), so administrators could remove it, and > I could also make it a separate option in the Windows installer, > so administrators could reject to install it.
It looks like we need a pronouncement now. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
