bpo-36707: Document "m" removed from sys.abiflags #14090
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@hroncok @ned-deily: Would you mind to review this doc change? |
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It should also be noted that this affects extension modules in the standard library as well as those produced and installed by third-party packages, like those downloaded from PyPI.
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I updated my PR. Does it look better now?
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I rebased my PR to fix a conflict. |
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My preference remains to not make the flags change at all but, if we must, this documents it adequately, I think. :). Thanks!
Well, "m" in ABI flags became useless around Python 3.4. I don't see the point of pretending that the "m" ABI is different and then provide two names for the same thing:
I'm not sure why, but on Fedora /usr/bin/python3.7 and /usr/bin/python3.7m are two separated files... with the same content (ex: same MD5 sum). Well, it's just 17 KiB each :-) /usr/bin/python3.7-config is a symlink to python3.7m-config. The change itself is painful for distributors like Red Hat (Fedora, RHEL), but things should be simpler once the change is done. My long-term goal is to get a single ABI for everything: CPython, PyPy, RustPython, MicroPython, etc. :-) Maybe it's not possible, but at least I would like to move towards this goal! Overall project: https://pythoncapi.readthedocs.io/ |
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Thanks @vstinner for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.8. |
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Thanks @ned-deily and @yan12125 for the review ;-) |
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GH-14097 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.8 branch. |
(cherry picked from commit 7efc526) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
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looks good, sorry for not responding faster
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https://bugs.python.org/issue36707