Author: martin.v.loewis Date: Thu Dec 30 15:57:53 2010 New Revision: 87578 Log: Clarify that libpython3.so is only meant for use in applications. Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0384.txt Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0384.txt ============================================================================== --- peps/trunk/pep-0384.txt (original) +++ peps/trunk/pep-0384.txt Thu Dec 30 15:57:53 2010 @@ -336,7 +336,9 @@ version check for the API version will accept either 3 or the current PYTHON_API_VERSION as conforming. If Python is compiled as a shared library, it is installed as both libpython3.so, and libpython3.y.so; -applications conforming to this PEP should then link to the former. +applications conforming to this PEP should then link to the former +(extension modules can continue to link with no libpython shared object, +but rather rely on runtime linking). The ABI version is symbolically available as ``PYTHON_ABI_VERSION``. Also on Unix, the PEP 3149 tag abi<PYTHON_ABI_VERSION> is accepted