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diff --git a/entries/cffi-alpm-a-new-hope.rst b/entries/cffi-alpm-a-new-hope.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3db414b --- /dev/null +++ b/entries/cffi-alpm-a-new-hope.rst @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Pyalpm has some annoyances to it, like leaking a lot of memory, and being a CPython module. It has many times been suggested that it should be re-written using CFFI or something similar though, and tonight I’ve been pretending that I don’t have anything better to do, so I started playing with CFFI and libalpm a bit. + +The result of my experimentations is available at `cffi-alpm <https://github.com/kyrias/cffi-alpm>`_, though it’s not particularly useful yet. Right now it has a class that wraps `alpm_list_t` and implements the Python `iterator protocol <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0234/>`_ for it, and have written a small example that searches the local DB. It’s not really much at all, but I do feel like I have a better feel of both CFFI and libalpm now, and might actually end up writing a complete pyalpm replacement. diff --git a/metadata.json b/metadata.json index 08426f5..422bf63 100644 --- a/metadata.json +++ b/metadata.json @@ -9,12 +9,25 @@ "title": "New blog!", "date": "2016-11-12", "file": "new-blog", - "tags": ["blog"] + "tags": [ + "blog" + ] }, { "title": "Style", "date": "2016-11-15", "file": "style", - "tags": ["blog"] + "tags": [ + "blog" + ] + }, + { + "title": "cffi-alpm: A New Hope", + "date": "2016-11-17", + "file": "cffi-alpm-a-new-hope", + "tags": [ + "python", + "libalpm" + ] } ] |