2013/4/18 Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com>: > Hi > > libffi has bugs sometimes (like this > http://bugs.python.org/issue17580). Now this is a thing that upstream > fixes really quickly, but tracking down issues on bugs.python.org is > annoying (they never get commited as quickly as the upstream). is > there a good reason why cpython has it's own copy of libffi? I > understand historical reasons, but PyPy gets along relying on the > system library, so maybe we can kill the inclusion.
IIRC, it had (has?) some custom windows patches, which no one knows whether they're relevant or not. I personally would love to see all libraries that we have copies of in the repo killed. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
