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[Python-Dev] API bloat

[Python-Dev] API bloat [Python-Dev] API bloatAntoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Feb 11 19:28:25 CET 2011
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:16:12 -0500
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 2/11/2011 4:29 AM, Mark Shannon wrote:
> > Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
> >> Now that the issue has been brought up, it can certainly be taken into
> >> consideration for 3.3. The idea of defining a Py_PORTABLE_API that is
> >> even more restrictive than PEP 384 (e.g. eliminating lots of old cruft
> >> that is a legacy of CPython's long history of development when it was
> >> the *only* viable Python implementation) may also be worth exploring.
> >
> > Absolutely. I intend to do just that.
> 
> I think we should try to have deprecations and removals in the codebase 
> by the first alpha release for maximal testing.

Why would we deprecate or remove anything? Are some functions useless?
Reducing the number of API functions is not a goal in itself.

Regards

Antoine.


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