On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:20 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> Can we please decouple the ctypes deprecation discussion from efforts to > upgrade cffi? They can coexist just fine, and they don't even really solve > the same problem. > I mostly proposed deprecating ctypes because we were not keeping up with libffi upstream. If we solve the latter I'm not bothered enough to personally pursue the former. -Brett > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:03 PM Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 11 March 2015 at 21:45, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> Is it possible to use cffi without a C compiler/headers as easily than >>> >> ctypes? >>> > >>> > yes, it has two modes, one that does that and the other that does >>> > extra safety at the cost of a C compiler >>> >>> So if someone were to propose a practical approach to including cffi >>> into the stdlib, *and* assisting the many Windows projects using >>> ctypes for access to the Windows API [1], then there may be a >>> reasonable argument for deprecating ctypes. But nobody seems to be >>> doing that, rather the suggestion appears to be just to deprecate a >>> widely used part of the stdlib offering no migration path :-( >>> >> >> You're ignoring that it's not maintained, which is the entire reason I >> brought this up. No one seems to want to touch the code. Who knows what >> improvements, bugfixes, etc. exist upstream in libffi that we lack because >> no one wants to go through and figure it out. If someone would come forward >> and help maintain it then I have no issue with it sticking around. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> > Unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >> >> > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >
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