[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 20:27:05 CET 2014

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:

Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:

After reading this http://bugs.python.org/issue23085 and remembering struggling having our own patches into cpython's libffi (but not into libffi itself), I wonder, is there any reason any more for libffi being included in CPython? We use it for ctypes, so there's certainly still a need. Are you asking whether we need a fork of it as opposed to treating it like an external (like OpenSSL)?

yes (why is there a copy of libffi in the cpython source). And I'm asking not why it landed there, but why it is still there

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