[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2006-01-01 through 2006-01-15 (original) (raw)

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Thu Jan 26 15:22:17 CET 2006

On 26-jan-2006, at 13:29, Thomas Heller wrote:

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:54:51AM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:

The current state is that ctypes uses GPL'd tools to build libffi, and those can't be committed into Python SVN. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059937.html But http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/ 059938.html was never responded to. Lack of time - sorry. And licenses are fluid, it may be a piece of cake to get one of those 'tools' un-GPL'ed, even if they are. I wouldn't even know whom to ask.

It shouldn't be too hard to use Python's main configure script to
calculate the information necessary to build libffi. A lot of it is already
calculated anyway (sizeof various type, endianness), some can be hardcoded
(FFI_NO_RAW_API).

In PyObjC I just compile the files I need from my setup.py. But I
have an easy task, I just need to support two CPU architectures on one OS.

Ronald

Thomas

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