[Mark Hammond] > That would be a great idea, if only we had a PEP author. To be honest, > I really dont care too much about this issue, and have been doing my > level best to avoid it. But Tim knows that, and delights in assigning > related patches to me ;-) I certainly don't care enough to own a pep > on it. ... I assign them to you because there's barely a line of Windows startup code you didn't write, and you gave Windows the notion of naming the main DLL differently across (some) different releases thus creating the possibility for the problem these patches are trying to solve <wink>. That's not to say it's "your problem", but is to say you've thought more about "stuff like this" than anyone else, and have very particular ideas about how you want "stuff like this" done: you're the best qualified. That said, the subject of the PEP shouldn't be competing hacks to worm around Windows-specific startup problems, it should be an actual design for binary compatibility across iterations of the C API, or at least a reliable way for extensions to *know* they're not getting a version of the Python core they can use. we're-only-hacking-because-we've-ignored-the-real-problem-ly y'rs - tim
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