[Python-Dev] --with-fpectl changes the CPython ABI

[Nathaniel Smith]

Great, sounds like we have a plan: https://bugs.python.org/issue29137

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I am happy to see it go. It was contributed many, many years ago by people
> (scientists from the early numpy world IIRC) who had a very specific use for
> it, but weren't really into maintaining it long-term, and I wasn't strong
> enough to refuse a well-meaning but poorly executed contribution at the time
> -- so we compromised on having the whole thing enabled through `#ifdef`.
> Clearly it started rotting the day I committed the code...
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2 January 2017 at 18:27, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So I guess that yeah, my suggestion would be to drop this feature
>>> entirely in 3.7, given that it's never been enabled by default and has
>>> been largely broken for years. Or do we still need a full deprecation
>>> cycle?
>>
>>
>> I think the existing warning in the docs and the fact it's apparently been
>> fundamentally broken for years is sufficient justification for just dropping
>> it entirely. An explicit deprecation warning could be added in 3.6.1 and a
>> Py3k warning in 2.7.x, though - those changes shouldn't be difficult, and
>> it's a nice courtesy for anyone that *is* somehow currently getting it to
>> work.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>>
>> --
>> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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