[Python-Dev] Support for marking limited API elements in C API docs (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Oct 12 22:30:39 CEST 2013

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:25:36 +0200 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

>> > ("limited API" is really a bad synonym for "stable ABI" IMO) >> >> It's not a synonym: to get a stable ABI, you use the limited API. > > I still don't like that name, because it doesn't convey any interesting > information. "Stable ABI" is immediately informative.

It can be changed, but we document the C API, not an ABI.

This is a rather mistaken statement. The only point of using the "limited API" is because it provides the stable ABI. There is zero other reason of caring about it.

Regards

Antoine.

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