[Python-Dev] API bloat

[Michael Foord]

On 09/02/2011 13:59, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> [snip...]
> And, since the C API has never been anywhere near as tightly
> controlled as the language definition, alternative implementations are
> going to garner more sympathy if they restrict their concerns to the
> growth of the stable ABI rather than worrying about an implementation
> detail of CPython.

Actually the opposite. Users tend to be very unsympathetic when 
extensions they depend on don't work with alternative implementations (I 
speak from experience).

Michael

> Cheers,
> Nick.
>


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