Yo Richard! On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 19:23:40 -0500 Richard Laager via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> On 9/7/20 11:03 AM, James Browning via devel wrote: > > I (re)developed a Python wrapper around a C FFI stub[1]. It is > > largely based around my merge request !1010 [2]. > I'll repeat from here, in case people want to respond to those points: > https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/merge_requests/1010#note_282670775 > > ---- > Is converting the existing "manual" extension to use ctypes > desirable? Yup. With FFI, the python module becomes "Pure Pythpn". That is all Python, and no binaries. The same code runs on all arches, and with a bit of care, on all Python versions. Since it works on all python versions, no need to build NTPsec for every target arch/version. That means just one pip package supports the world. It also means you can install the ntpd pylib in one place, add that to your PYTHONPATH, and all version of Python will work with it. In my use it is a coin flip. But a lot of the world wants to just use pip and this makes pip much easier. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 g...@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." - Lord Kelvin
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