-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jack Diederich wrote:
> Does disabling the LLVM change binary compatibility between modules > targeted at the same version? At tonight's Boston PIG we had some > binary package maintainers but most people (including myself) only > cared about source compatibility. I assume linux distros care about > binary compatibility _a lot_. Nope: they (rightly) only support using binary modules either compiled by themselves, or compiled against their version of Python. See the UCS4 vs. UCS2 troubles which show up routinely when folks try to reuse binaries across incompatible Pythons on Linux (its *much* worse on MacOS). Source compatibility is all that matters for FLOSS developers, really; binary distributions are just an optimization, unless you don't distribute sources at all. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktX3LMACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4rZQCgzJ3DKZJdz9zIivkio1ibnzg/ I0AAoKV2vDnOqSYYPeQCVRTG3livqEbB =xpha -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
