On 21 May 2018 at 14:42, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is it even acceptable to add a symbol into the limited ABI? I thought >> the idea was that if I linked with python3.dll, my code would work >> with any version of Python 3? By introducing new symbols, code linked >> with the python3.dll shipped with (say) Python 3.8 would fail to run >> if executed with the python3.dll from Python 3.5. > > The limited API is versioned. If you use only Python 3.5 API (define > Py_LIMITED_API to 0x03050000), the built code will be expected to work on > 3.5 and later. In theory.
Thanks, I'd missed that point (I need to go and check my build process, in that case :-)). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
