[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r43041 - python/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/cfield.c (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Fri Mar 17 10:59:59 CET 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Since this change is going to affect a lot of 3rd party extensions, I'd also like to see a complete list of public APIs that changed and how they changed (including the type slots) You can construct this list easily by comparing the header files of the previous and the current release. Please contribute a patch that presents these changes in a form that you would consider acceptable.

Sorry, but I'd rather spend that time on getting my extensions working again for both Python 2.4 and 2.5.

I think it's only fair that I ask the patch authors to complete the PEP, since the ssize_t patch is causing extension authors enough trouble already.

If you want quick adoption of the changes, you have to make it as easy as possible for the authors to port their extensions to the new API. Otherwise, we'll end up having quite a large number of users who can't switch to Python 2.5 simply because their favorite extensions don't work with it.

The argument that it "only" affects 64-bit platforms simply ignores reality. Most new machines are 64-bit machines, so by the time Python 2.5 goes public, 64-bit will have a large enough market share to make a difference.

It's also not good enough to simply suggest to ignore compiler warnings - this falls back on the extension authors and the quality of their code without them really having done anything wrong.

-- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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