[Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Tue Jun 24 00:04:26 CEST 2014

On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:42 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

See my other message. It's actually heavier, since it requires changes to distutils, PyPI, pip, buildout etc., all which know how to deal with Python minor version numbers, but are unaware of the notion of competing ABIs on Windows (except that they know how to deal with 32-bit vs. 64-bit). Is it possible to hijack the "deal with 32-bit vs 64-bit"ness of things to handle the different compilers? So, for instance, there might be a "32-bit-NewCompiler" and a "64-bit-NewCompiler", two new architectures, just as if someone came out with a 128-bit Windows and built Python 2.7 for it. Would packaging be able to handle that more easily than a compiler change within the same architecture? ChrisA

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I’m not sure about this FWIW. I’d have to look at the implementations of stuff to see how they’d cope with a new thing like that.

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