[SciPy-dev] Is it ok to depend on ctypes for scipy code ?

[Robert Kern]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>> I think you may be reading my statement out of context. Andrew asked about
>> building shared libraries for ctypes' use by abusing distutils to build a fake
>> extension module from it.
> Mmh, do you mean building a library with  
> 
> config.add_extension('foo',                                                        
> 
>         sources=[join('src', 'vq.c') ])
> 
> is not enought to load it through ctypes on windows ?

Correct. It will not even build.

-- 
Robert Kern

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 an underlying truth."
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