[jira] [Commented] (PROTON-2095) Move away from SWIG to CFFI

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on PROTON-2095:
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jiridanek commented on PR #318:
URL: https://github.com/apache/qpid-proton/pull/318#issuecomment-1186232963

   Continued in #318.




> Move away from SWIG to CFFI
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: PROTON-2095
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-2095
>             Project: Qpid Proton
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: python-binding
>    Affects Versions: proton-c-0.29.0, proton-c-future
>            Reporter: Omer Katz
>            Assignee: Arunagirinadan Sudharshan
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: proton-c-future
>
>
> SWIG is fine but we're not using it for anything other than exporting all of proton-c's API as is.
> Unfortunately SWIG only generates CPython extension bindings. This may be a problem on PyPy where CPython extensions are either slow or simply won't compile.
> Unlike SWIG, CFFI is portable both on CPython and PyPy.
> It also satisfies the same requirements as SWIG currently does.
> In addition, calls to CFFI simply release the GIL which will help parallelizing Python applications using threads.
> By using CFFI we can also get rid of all of our setup.py code and simply use it to build the extension. We will also no longer have problems building wheels.
> The newest version of CFFI supports pkg-config so we can use that to find proton-c easily.
> I'm willing to help with the refactor but I'll need a mentor since I'm not familiar with the code base.
>  



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