[Python-Dev] importlib is now bootstrapped (and what that means) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Apr 17 02:27:28 CEST 2012


On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:11:14 +0200 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

No, it's not just an existing Python, it is (at least currently) the same version of Python being built. Therefore I wrote about the bootstrapping problems when bytecode changes. Depending on Cython is better in that it breaks the bootstrapping cycle, but on the other hand the C code may need to be regenerated when the C API changes in an incompatible way.

Cython OTOH probably needs Python 2.x, which isn't that great for building Python 3. And requiring Cython for developing is not very contributor-friendly.

Regards

Antoine.



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