[Python-Dev] ctypes patch (was: (libffi) Re: Copyright issue) (original) (raw)

Hye-Shik Chang hyeshik at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 18:44:13 CET 2006

On 1/30/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Hye-Shik Chang wrote: > I did some work to make ctypes+libffi compacter and liberal. > http://openlook.org/svnpublic/ctypes-compactffi/ (svn) > > I removed sources/gcc and put sources/libffi copied from gcc 4.0.2. > And removed all automake-related build processes and integrated > them into setup.py. There's still aclocal.m4 in sources/libffi. But > it is just identical to libffi's acinclude.m4 which looks liberal.

Well done! Would you like to derive a Python patch from that? Don't worry about MSVC, yet, I will do that once the sources are in the subversion.

Here goes patches for the integration:

[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~perky/ctypesinteg-f1.diff.bz2 [2] http://people.freebsd.org/~perky/ctypesinteg-f2.diff.bz2

I implemented it in two flavors. [1] runs libffi's configure along with Python's and setup.py just builds it. And [2] has no change to Python's configure and setup.py runs libffi configure and builds it. And both patches don't have things for documentations yet.

(Of course, for due process, it would be better if this code gets integrated into the official ctypes first, and then we incorporate some named/versioned snapshot into /external, and svn cp it into python/trunk from there).

Thomas and I collaborated on integration into the ctypes repository and testing on various platforms yesterday. My patches for Python are derived from ctypes CVS with a change of only one line.

Hye-Shik

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