Sounds like a plan. Make sure it is prominently mentioned in Misc/NEWS. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:03 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-08-07 18:40, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 7, 2008, at 5:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> >>>>>> Is it too late for that ? >>>>> >>>>> That kind of depends on how far other 3rd party projects are in >>>>> porting their extensions to Py3k, and how much they've bought into >>>>> these APIs. I recall that mechanically translating these APIs to >>>>> something else can easily introduce memory leaks. >>>> >>>> True, but isn't it better to go through that pain for a few extensions >>>> now and then have a proper C API to use in 3.1 ? Otherwise, we end >>>> up having to support those APIs for the whole lifetime >>>> of the 3.x branch. >>>> >>>> Note that those two APIs are not documented, so their use is not >>>> yet officially allowed. >>> >>> I'd prefer not introducing such instability this late in the beta >>> processes, >>> but I agree that fixing it now will be better in the long term. >> >> I see this as a sufficient endorsement. Marc-Andre, can you do this? > > Yes. I'll just apply a renaming of two APIs (and all their uses > in the interpreter code) to a _Py internal name. > > We can then hash out a better interface to the internal UTF-8 > representation for 3.1. > > Extension that use the current unofficial APIs could then also > apply that renaming if the developers don't have time to update > the code and then use the new APIs when 3.1 ships. > > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > eGenix.com > > Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 07 2008) >>>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: > > > eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 > D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg > Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 >
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