[pypy-commit] cffi default: Documentation tweak

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Wed Jul 25 21:32:05 CEST 2012


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r679:80706f81bc7c
Date: 2012-07-25 20:09 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/80706f81bc7c/

Log:	Documentation tweak

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@
 
 * libffi (you need ``libffi-dev``); the Windows version is included with CFFI.
 
+* a C compiler is required to use CFFI during development, but not to run
+  correctly-installed programs that use CFFI.
+
 Download and Installation:
 
 * https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/downloads
@@ -76,8 +79,8 @@
 
 * or you can directly import and use ``cffi``, but if you don't
   compile the ``_cffi_backend`` extension module, it will fall back
-  to using internally ``ctypes`` (slower and does not support
-  ``verify()``).
+  to using internally ``ctypes`` (much slower and does not support
+  ``verify()``; we recommend not to use it).
 
 Demos:
 


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