[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Dec 3 00:38:36 CET 2010

From my point of view, the PEP 3149 text is just a proposal. It leaves the final decision to PEP 384, but tries to address some of the issues raised during the PEP 3149 discussion. I think it is within PEP 384's scope to make the final decisions about it.

Ok, then it looks like there just won't be any support for module tagging of ABI-conforming modules. It might be possible to support something like this in the import code, but I would consider this pointless without accompanying distutils support.

Then, by default, the modules just use the ABI tag that distutils assigns to them by default. It's interesting to note that #9807 got into distutils despite it being frozen (but this is not about ABI tags, right - so does distutils in 3.2 actually assign any ABI tag at all?)

I would favor changing distutils, if it can be done in a way that reasonably preserves backward compatibility.

It seems this is right out for policy reasons.

Regards, Martin

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