On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 10:23 +0300, Matti Picus wrote:
> On 19/10/19 11:55 pm, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've noticed that the compiled module suffix keeps changing between
> > PyPy3 releases: it's been .pypy3-71-*.so for 7.1, now it's .pypy3-72-
> > *.so (also .pyc).  However, this is a bit surprising to me given that
> > for PyPy2 it's still at .pypy-41.so.
> > 
> > Is the bytecode generated by successive PyPy3 releases really
> > incompatible between them?  Or are the suffix changes only incidental?
> > They cause quite some trouble for us, since they make it necessary to
> > recompile installed modules on Gentoo, and PyPy's overzealous compiling
> > causes access violations for our users.
> > 
> > TIA for any help.
> > 
> I committed changes that:
> 
> - on py3.6 (for python 3.6, 3.7 and up) change the *.pyc file name to 
> follow the cpython spec: filename.pypy-36.pyc
> 
> - on default (for python2) change the DEFAULT_SOABI to track the 
> pypy_version; so's will now be named .pypy-72.so (on py3.6 they are 
> named filename.pypy3-72-x86_64-linux-gnu.so so they will not clash)

Shouldn't this include the 3.6/3.7 version as well?

> For CFFI, we discussed a pypy-specific "stable-api" extension to mirror 
> the cpython3 "abi3" tag, the idea still needs to be fleshed out and 
> implemented.
> 
> The reasoning behind the changes to the pyc filename and so filenames is 
> explained earlier in this mail thread, I will not repeat them here but 
> if I was mistaken please help me get it right.
> 
> The changes, if not reverted, will be part of the next release cycle.
> 

Thanks!

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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