Hi, Branko Čibej wrote: > I've been looking at the ctypes-based Python bindings. They're barely > maintained; the only changes in the last two years seem to have been > minor tweaks to make the tests run. I'm also not aware of anyone using > them, or any packager bundling them. > > This was an interesting experiment, but I think it's time to face the > fact that it failed. > > If there are no objections, I propose to remove the ctypes-based > bindings from trunk (including all related configury and build system > support) before creating the 1.9 branch.
openSUSE packages them in 1.8 but I am not aware of (people) users of this package, and I haven't seen other packages in the distribution using it. Somewhat indifferent. Andreas