On 21 November 2013 21:31, <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > Quoting Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > >> Another alternative I'd prefer to an ABI version bump: backporting the "C >> runtime independence" aspects of the stable ABI to Python 2.7. > > P.S. Thinking about this, there are some issues. The "restricted API" > hides the object layout of all objects, in particular of type objects. > Adding the PEP 384 API (PyType_FromSpec) might be a bit heavy for 2.7. > > So it might by better to provide a "py27compat.dll" instead which does > not hide the structures (as they won't change during the remaining life > of 2.7), but only hides any APIs and macros that directly expose CRT > functionality.
Yep, that's what I meant by backporting just the "C runtime independence" aspects - there's no reason to backport the version independence features, since we're not planning to do another Python 2.x ABI bump anyway. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
