On 09/02/2011 13:59, Nick Coghlan wrote:
[snip...]
And, since the C API has never been anywhere near as tightly
controlled as the language definition, alternative implementations are
going to garner more sympathy if they restrict their concerns to the
growth of the stable ABI rather than worrying about an implementation
detail of CPython.

Actually the opposite. Users tend to be very unsympathetic when extensions they depend on don't work with alternative implementations (I speak from experience).

Michael

Cheers,
Nick.



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