[issue22980] C extension naming doesn't take bitness into account

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 16.04.2015 19:47, Ned Deily wrote:
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> Ned Deily added the comment:
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>> Antoine's ticket is the first in two decades to request being
>> able to install .so extension files side-by-side, so even if
>> times and platforms change, people don't seem to have a big
>> issues without this feature.
> 
> That's exactly what PEP 3149 was supposed to implement, isn't it?

No, PEP 3149 is about the Python ABI, following PEP 3147,
which implements this for PYC files.

The intent is to be able to have mutliple *Python* ABI/API versions
installed side-by-side, not multiple platform ABI versions :-)

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