Status of cffi compatibility

[minrk]

Tracking issue for cffi is here: python-cffi/cffi#40

[rgommers]

Thanks @minrk. Let me also copy over the relevant part of your original comment:

I was testing Jupyter today, and of the extension dependencies for JupyterLab, these appear to both be limiting factors. Most extensions are working fine, though:

• argon-cffi-bindings uses cffi which unconditionally sets the unsupported py_limited_api=True (I got this to build with limited api is not available in free-threaded cpython python-cffi/cffi#104)

so I can run a nogil kernel, but not the UI yet.

[lysnikolaou]

Closing in favor of the upstream issue.