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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Dec 2 23:54:01 CET 2010

On Dec 02, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Well, the PEP 384 text in PEP 3149 specifies a change. It's not clear whether this change was accepted when PEP 3149 was accepted, or whether it was accepted when PEP 384 was accepted, or whether it was not accepted at all, or whether it was just proposed.

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.

In any case, without the change, you won't naturally get extension modules that use the abi3 tag proposed in 3149.

I would favor changing distutils, if it can be done in a way that reasonably preserves backward compatibility. I suppose it's impossible to know all the ways 3rd party code has reached into distutils, but I think you can make fairly good judgements about whether a change is backward compatible or not.

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