On Sep 20, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Landon Fuller wrote:
On Sep 19, 2006, at 23:22, Mark Duling wrote:
Is libffi obsolete? Is it desirable and/or feasible to run it on OS X anymore? Looks like it isn't under active development.
The PyObjC project maintains their own, modern fork of libffi, which is what the port fetches.
The file the port tries to download isn't the maintained copy of libffi. I've fully integrated the libffi build into the PyObjC build and we no longer distribute a current standalone copy of libffi. The copy of libffi at the head of the PyObjC repository supports both darwin/ppc and darwin/x86 (it passes all libffi unittests on these two platforms). It is a partial copy of libffi, I have removed all files that are needed for support of other architectures to futher "document" that our copy of libffi is a limited fork. If someone wants to port our changes to the trunk of GCC I'm willing to answer questions. At one point I did try to do that port, but as their copy of libffi doesn't compile with the version of gcc that is shipping with Xcode 2.3 I gave up before actually starting. Ronald