Library support for Python 3.x

Paul Rubin no.email at nospam.invalid
Thu Jan 28 01:37:52 EST 2010


David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> writes:
> That's not windows specific - most packages which distribute binary
> packages need to package binaries for every minor version (2.4, 2.5,
> etc...)....
> I doubt that's what Paul was referring to, though - he seemed more
> concern with API/language changes than ABI issues.

I didn't realize the ABI situation was that unstable.  I thought you
could just package up a .so or .dll and people could keep using it.  I
tend to not want to use extension modules that are not in the stdlib,
and I guess this is another reason to keep staying away from them.



More information about the Python-list mailing list