On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:12 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm the only one who cares about > the Python 2.x branch not getting cluttered up with artifacts caused > by a broken forward merge strategy. > > How can it be that we allow major C API changes such as the renaming > of the PyString APIs to go into the trunk without discussion or > a PEP ?
I do not consider it a C API change. The API and ABI have not changed. Old code still compiles. Old binaries still dynamically load and work fine. (I just confirmed this by importing a couple python2.4 .so files into my non-debug build of 2.6 trunk) A of the PyString APIs are the real implementations in 2.x and are still there. We only switched to using their PyBytes equivalent names within the Python trunk code base. Are you objecting to our own code switching to use a different name even though the actual underlying API and ABI haven't changed? I suppose to people reading the code and going against old reference books it could be confusing but they've got to get used to the new names somehow and sometime. I strongly support changes like this one that makes the life of porting C code forwards and backwards between 2.x and 3.x easier without breaking compatibility with earlier 2.x version because that is going to be a serious pain for all of us otherwise. -gps _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
