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authorArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2018-08-15 17:41:10 +0200
committerArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2018-08-15 17:41:10 +0200
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@@ -34,10 +34,9 @@ Requirements:
* CPython 2.6 or 2.7 or 3.x, or PyPy (PyPy 2.0 for the earliest
versions of CFFI; or PyPy 2.6 for CFFI 1.0).
-* in some cases you need to be able to compile C extension modules;
- refer to the appropriate docs for your OS. This includes installing
- CFFI from sources; or developing code based on ``ffi.set_source()`` or
- ``ffi.verify()``; or installing such 3rd-party modules from sources.
+* in some cases you need to be able to compile C extension modules.
+ On non-Windows platforms, this usually means installing the package
+ ``python-dev``. Refer to the appropriate docs for your OS.
* on CPython, on non-Windows platforms, you also need to install
``libffi-dev`` in order to compile CFFI itself.