CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/py-cffi

["Thomas Klausner" <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   wiz
Date:           Sun Dec 27 22:36:52 UTC 2015

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/devel/py-cffi: Makefile distinfo

Log Message:
Update py-cffi to 1.4.2:

v1.4.2
======

Nothing changed from v1.4.1.

v1.4.1
======

* Fix the compilation failure of cffi on CPython 3.5.0.  (3.5.1 works;
  some detail changed that makes some underscore-starting macros
  disappear from view of extension modules, and I worked around it,
  thinking it changed in all 3.5 versions---but no: it was only in
  3.5.1.)

v1.4.0
======

* A `better way to do callbacks`__ has been added (faster and more
  portable, and usually cleaner).  It is a mechanism for the
  out-of-line API mode that replaces the dynamic creation of callback
  objects (i.e. C functions that invoke Python) with the static
  declaration in ``cdef()`` of which callbacks are needed.  This is
  more C-like, in that you have to structure your code around the idea
  that you get a fixed number of function pointers, instead of
  creating them on-the-fly.

* ``ffi.compile()`` now takes an optional ``verbose`` argument.  When
  ``True``, distutils prints the calls to the compiler.

* ``ffi.compile()`` used to fail if given ``sources`` with a path that
  includes ``".."``.  Fixed.

* ``ffi.init_once()`` added.  See docs__.

* ``dir(lib)`` now works on libs returned by ``ffi.dlopen()`` too.

* Cleaned up and modernized the content of the ``demo`` subdirectory
  in the sources (thanks matti!).

* ``ffi.new_handle()`` is now guaranteed to return unique ``void *``
  values, even if called twice on the same object.  Previously, in
  that case, CPython would return two ``cdata`` objects with the same
  ``void *`` value.  This change is useful to add and remove handles
  from a global dict (or set) without worrying about duplicates.
  It already used to work like that on PyPy.
  *This change can break code that used to work on CPython by relying
  on the object to be kept alive by other means than keeping the
  result of ffi.new_handle() alive.*  (The corresponding `warning in
  the docs`__ of ``ffi.new_handle()`` has been here since v0.8!)

.. __: using.html#extern-python
.. __: using.html#initonce
.. __: using.html#ffi-new-handle


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.12 -r1.13 pkgsrc/devel/py-cffi/Makefile
cvs rdiff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 pkgsrc/devel/py-cffi/distinfo

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