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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 23 Jul, 2010, at 11:02, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Jul 22, 2010, at 03:58 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> 
>> I guess this is not an explicit goal of this PEP, but the structure is
>> very close to supporting multiple system architectures at the same
>> time.  I regularly develop code that needs to run on Windows, Linux
>> and OSX and it is very convenient to do so in a shared directory tree
>> (locally on one machine and accessed using remote mounts on the other
>> ones). This works fine for pure python code, but I currently have to
>> resort to tricks for extension modules.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> A way to generically solve my problem is to add the platform name as
>> well, such as "foo.cpython-32m-darwin.so" or
>> "foo.cpython-32mu-linux2.so".
> 
> This could certainly be done in the Windows build, but that wouldn't help
> bridge the gap among different POSIX systems.

The windows port isn't a problem for this, it uses a different suffix (".pyd") than the unix ports.

>  I'd be open to adding the
> platform name to the tag, but I'd probably define it as part of the
> implementation field, e.g. foo.cpython-linux2-32m.so.  Or maybe start with the
> platform name, e.g.  foo.linux2-cpython-32m.  This isn't a strong preference
> though.

I don't have a strong opionion, but placing the platform name at the start
is probably better to be consistent with sysconfig.get_platform().

Ronald

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