[issue36707] The "m" ABI flag of SOABI for pymalloc is no longer needed

[Ned Deily]

Ned Deily <nad at python.org> added the comment:

> One question I have is, can/does SOABI flag removal affect any third party package/extension builds in any way, particularly affecting the names of files they produce?

Yep, the default file names of C extension modules differ on most/all? Unix-y platforms (certainly vanilla Linux and macOS) because the SOABI is included in the file name.

$ /tmp/py38/bin/python3.7 -m pip install --no-binary :all: psutil
$ ls /tmp/py37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/psutil/*.so
/tmp/py37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/psutil/_psutil_linux.cpython-37m-i386-linux-gnu.so
/tmp/py37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/psutil/_psutil_posix.cpython-37m-i386-linux-gnu.so

$ /tmp/py38/bin/python3.8 -m pip install --no-binary :all: psutil
$ ls /tmp/py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/psutil/*.so
/tmp/py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/psutil/_psutil_linux.cpython-38-i386-linux-gnu.so
/tmp/py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/psutil/_psutil_posix.cpython-38-i386-linux-gnu.so

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