[Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Sep 8 01:50:38 CEST 2010

On Sep 05, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Notice, however, that the PEP also talks about creating different names for different compilation options of the same Python binary. This applies to Windows as well (as the PEP actually points out: there is _d.pyd and .pyd).

In any case, if the PEP is specific to Unix (or even to Linux?), it should say so (either as a positive list, or a negative one; if negative, it should also say whether it applies to OSX).

Section added:

Windows

This PEP only addresses build issues on POSIX systems that use the configure script. While Windows or other platform support is not explicitly disallowed under this PEP, platform expertise is needed in order to evaluate, describe, and implement support on such platforms. It is not currently clear that the facilities in this PEP are even useful for Windows.

That section is talking about files installed by distributions, which need to take special steps to get everything into /usr/{lib,share}/pyshared; a standard out-of-the-tarball install will not change the way it is installed.

It may well be that Barry had his Ubuntu hat on a bit too firmly when writing that PEP :) I think then that the PEP should better separate what is actually being specified (and apparently, that's just the name of the shared objects), from possible use case scenarios.

I'm not really sure what to do about this.

-Barry

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