Le Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:09:16 +0200, mar...@v.loewis.de a écrit : > > > Robin has produced many patches that seem to reach the stated goal > > (refactor C extension modules to take advantage of the latest PEPs > > about module initialization and extension types definition). > > Unfortunately, tackling both goals at the same time produces big > > patches with a lot of churn; and it is also not obvious the PEP 384 > > refactoring is useful for the stdlib (while the PEP 3121 refactoring > > definitely is). > > Choice of supporting PEP 384 was deliberate. It will change all > types into heap types, which is useful for multiple-interpreter > support and GC.
If I'm not mistaken, static C types shouln't benefit much from GC, since they only reference C functions. Also, PyType_FromSpec() makes reference counting delicate when subclasses are allowed. > > What didn't produce an alarm during Robin's work is that GSoC work > > is done in private. > > It wasn't really done in private. Robin posted to python-dev, anybody > who would have been interested could have joined discussions. I'm sorry if I misremembered how things happened. However, it's clear that the produced patches (including their number) cause problems for reviewers, and very few of them have been integrated. 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
