[Python-Dev] versioned .so files for Python 3.2

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> Python implementations *MAY* include additional flags in the file name
> tag as appropriate.  For example, on POSIX systems these flags will
> also contribute to the file name:
>
>  * ``--with-pydebug`` (flag: ``d``)
>  * ``--with-pymalloc`` (flag: ``m``)
>  * ``--with-wide-unicode`` (flag: ``u``)
>
> By default in Python 3.2, ``configure`` enables ``--with-pymalloc`` so
> shared library file names would appear as ``foo.cpython-32m.so``.
> When the other two flags are also enabled, the file names would be
> ``foo.cpython-32dmu.so``.
>
> (This PEP only addresses build issues on POSIX systems that use the
> ``configure`` script.  While Windows or other platform support is not
> explicitly disallowed under this PEP, platform expertise is needed in
> order to evaluate, describe, and implement support on such platforms.)

This leads me to a question: how do these configure options affect the
PEP 384 stable ABI? That PEP is currently silent on the issue, while
PEP 3149 appears to implicitly assume that "abi3" completely specifies
the ABI.

Cheers,
Nick.

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