On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 23:24, Armin Rigo
The C API would change a lot, so it's not reasonable to do that in the CPython repo. But it could be a third-party project, attempting to define an API like this and implement it well on top of both CPython and PyPy. IMHO this might be a better idea than just changing the API of functions defined long ago to make them more regular (e.g. stop returning borrowed references); by now this would mostly mean creating more work for the PyPy team to track and adapt to the changes, with no real benefits.
And the nice thing about doing it as a shim is that it can be applied to *existing* versions of CPython, rather than having to wait for new ones. Node.js started switching over to doing things this way last year, and its a good way to go about it: https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/n-api-next-generation-node-js-apis... While this would still be a difficult project to pursue, and would suffer from many of the same barriers to adoption as CPython's native stable ABI, it does offer a concrete benefit to 3rd party module authors: being able to create single wheel files that can be shared across multiple Python versions, rather than needing to be built separately for each one. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia