[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: merge heads

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Author: David Schneider <david.schneider at picle.org>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r4380:19bc88d99eb9
Date: 2012-07-27 10:22 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/19bc88d99eb9/

Log:	merge heads

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+CFFI release 0.2
+================
+
+Hi everybody,
+
+We released `CFFI 0.2`_ (now as a full release candidate).  CFFI is a
+way to call C from Python.
+
+This release is only for CPython 2.6 or 2.7.  PyPy support is coming in
+the ``ffi-backend`` branch, but not finished yet.  CPython 3.x would be
+easy but requires the help of someone.
+
+The package is available `on bitbucket`_ as well as `documented`_. You
+can also install it straight from the python package index (pip).
+
+.. _`on bitbucket`: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi
+.. _`CFFI 0.2`: http://cffi.readthedocs.org
+.. _`documented`: http://cffi.readthedocs.org
+
+* Contains numerous small changes and support for more C-isms.
+
+* The biggest news is the support for `installing packages`__ that use
+  ``ffi.verify()`` on machines without a C compiler.  Arguably, this
+  lifts the last serious restriction for people to use CFFI.
+
+* Partial list of smaller changes:
+  
+  - mappings between 'wchar_t' and Python unicodes
+  
+  - the introduction of ffi.NULL
+  
+  - a possibly clearer API for ``ffi.new()``: e.g. ``ffi.new("int *")``
+    instead of ``ffi.new("int")``
+    
+  - and of course a plethora of smaller bug fixes
+
+* CFFI uses ``pkg-config`` to install itself if available.  This helps
+  locate ``libffi`` on modern Linuxes.  Mac OS/X support is available too
+  (see the detailed `installation instructions`__).  Win32 should work out
+  of the box.  Win64 has not been really tested yet.
+
+.. __: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#distributing-modules-using-cffi
+.. __: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#macos-10-6
+
+
+Cheers,
+Armin Rigo and Maciej Fija&#322;kowski