On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: > On Aug 30, 2010, at 07:31 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >>Since part of the point of PEP 384 is to support multiple versions of the C >>runtime in a single process > > Is it? That's certainly not explicit in the Rationale section of PEP 384. > > It seems to me that the PEP is all about inoculating extension builders from > changes in Python's ABI across Python versions. That's a worthy goal. I'm > not sure the same can be said about allowing multiple versions of the C > runtime in a linked process. But then I'm developing on Windows these days, > and I think for all practical purposes, it's a moot point on *nix. Yeah, I found the Rationale section a little lacking in that regard as well. It was more of a description of the status quo rather than an attempt to justify the proposed changes. The actual proposal and benefits were down in the Linkage section. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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