On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:13:11 -0000 exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > >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. > > Sympathy, perhaps. But that doesn't mean people will drop everything > and rewrite their extension modules.
Using the stable ABI should have maintenance advantages, since you don't have to compile a separate package for each Python version. How far distutils goes to support version-independent binary distributions I don't know, though. But at least the stable ABI is a step in that direction. And of course you don't need to "rewrite your extension modules". Apparently type definitions have to be adapted, and you have to make sure you aren't using functions that are not in the limited API, but otherwise things should work fine. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
