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| author | Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> | 2018-02-27 17:43:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> | 2018-02-27 17:43:23 +0100 |
| commit | 8d871a00d6b7029376cfe7f4c48aa8c53e1fc628 (patch) | |
| tree | 122cb7c5b8faabec807b708a3a33bd8667df621c | |
| parent | 8f133a0a532825238fdad865ce988b6e71f479cc (diff) | |
| download | cffi-8d871a00d6b7029376cfe7f4c48aa8c53e1fc628.tar.gz | |
Update whatsnew
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diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew.rst index 4660e6e..55a91be 100644 --- a/doc/source/whatsnew.rst +++ b/doc/source/whatsnew.rst @@ -12,20 +12,28 @@ v1.11.5 * Windows: ``ffi.dlopen()`` should now handle unicode filenames. -* Implemented ``ffi.dlclose()`` for the in-line case (it used to be - present only in the out-of-line case). +* ABI mode: implemented ``ffi.dlclose()`` for the in-line case (it used + to be present only in the out-of-line case). * Fixed a corner case for ``setup.py install --record=xx --root=yy`` - with an out-of-line ABI module. + with an out-of-line ABI module. Also fixed `Issue #345`_. * More hacks on Windows for running CFFI's own ``setup.py``. -* `Issue #358`_: in embedding, to protect against Python initialization - from several threads in parallel, we have to use a spin-lock. On - CPython 3 it is worse because it might spin-lock for a long time - (execution of ``Py_InitializeEx()``). Sadly, recent changes to - CPython make that solution needed on CPython 2 too. +* `Issue #358`_: in embedding, to protect against (the rare case of) + Python initialization from several threads in parallel, we have to use + a spin-lock. On CPython 3 it is worse because it might spin-lock for + a long time (execution of ``Py_InitializeEx()``). Sadly, recent + changes to CPython make that solution needed on CPython 2 too. +* CPython 3 on Windows: we no longer compile with ``Py_LIMITED_API`` + by default because such modules cannot be used with virtualenv. + `Issue #350`_ mentions a workaround if you still want that and are not + concerned about virtualenv: pass a ``define_macros=[("Py_LIMITED_API", + None)]`` to the ``ffibuilder.set_source()`` call. + +.. _`Issue #345`: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/345/ +.. _`Issue #350`: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/350/ .. _`Issue #358`: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/358/ .. _`Issue #357`: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/357/ |