27 Feb
2020
27 Feb
'20
9:38 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 1:18 PM M.-A. Lemburg mal@egenix.com wrote:
[SNIP] I wouldn't really put much effort into maintaining binary compatibility anymore. For better maintenance, portability and consistency of the API is much more important.
Except I hear from people who find it burdensome to have to rebuild their wheels for every version of Python that they support, especially with a shift to an annual release cadence for Python. So while consistency and portability are definitely important, I don't think we should ignore binary compatibility either.