On Mar 20, 2013, at 01:18 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: >The patch in the issue now makes a distinction between EXT_SUFFIX and >SHLIB_SUFFIX, and restores the value of SO to SHLIB_SUFFIX. Now this could >break users of sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'), however I don't see a better >way than to restore the original behaviour and advise people to use the new >config variables.
It should probably be considered a bug that we changed the meaning of SO in PEP 3149, but I don't think anybody realized it was being used for both purposes (otherwise I'm sure we wouldn't have done it that way). I suppose Georg should make the final determination for 3.2 and 3.3, but the solution you propose seems about the best you can do. As we discussed at Pycon, you'll post a diff to the PEP in the tracker issue and I'll commit that when I figure out the best way to indicate that a PEP has been updated post-Final status. -Barry _______________________________________________ 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