[Python-Dev] ctypes module

[Nick Coghlan]

On 8 April 2015 at 20:36, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> I presume the reason was that noone wants to maintain code for the
> case where there are no buildbots available and there is no
> development time available. You are free to put back in the files and
> see if they work (they might not), but such things are usually removed
> if they're a maintenance burden. I would be happy to assist you with
> finding someone willing to do commercial maintenance of ctypes for
> itanium, but asking python devs to do it for free is a bit too much.

As a point of reference, even Red Hat dropped Itanium support for
RHEL6+ - you have to go all the way back to RHEL5 to find a version we
still support running on Itanium.

For most of CPython, keeping it running on arbitrary architectures
often isn't too difficult, as libc abstracts away a lot of the
hardware details. libffi (and hence ctypes) are notable exceptions to
that :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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