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2014-12-19 Thread Python tracker
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Re: [Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

2014-12-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 19 December 2014 at 23:01, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:52:26 + > Paul Moore wrote: > > On 19 December 2014 at 08:26, Maciej Fijalkowski > wrote: > > > I would like to add that "not doing anything" is not a good strategy > > > either, because you accumulate bugs that ge

Re: [Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

2014-12-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:52:26 + Paul Moore wrote: > On 19 December 2014 at 08:26, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > > I would like to add that "not doing anything" is not a good strategy > > either, because you accumulate bugs that get fixed upstream (I'm > > pretty sure all the problems from cpytho

Re: [Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

2014-12-19 Thread Christian Heimes
On 19.12.2014 10:52, Paul Moore wrote: > Probably the easiest way of moving this forward would be for someone > to identify the CPython-specific patches in the current version, and > check if they are addressed in the latest libffi version. They haven't > been applied as they are, I gather, but may

Re: [Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

2014-12-19 Thread Paul Moore
On 19 December 2014 at 08:26, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > I would like to add that "not doing anything" is not a good strategy > either, because you accumulate bugs that get fixed upstream (I'm > pretty sure all the problems from cpython got fixed in upstream > libffi, but not all libffi fixes mad

Re: [Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

2014-12-19 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Jim J. Jewett wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014, at 14:13, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >> ... http://bugs.python.org/issue23085 ... >> is there any reason any more for libffi being included in CPython? > > [And why a fork, instead of just treating it as an external