On Jun 25, 2010, at 03:42 PM, Scott Dial wrote:
On 6/25/2010 2:58 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
I assume you are talking about PEP 3147. You're right that the PEP was for pyc files and that's it. No one is talking about rewriting the PEP.
Yes, I am making reference to PEP 3147. I make reference to that PEP because this change is of the same order of magnitude as the .pyc change, and we asked for a PEP for that, and if this .so stuff is an extension of that thought process, then it should either be reflected by that PEP or a new PEP.
I think it's not nearly on the order of magnitude as PEP 3147. One way to measure that is the size of the patch required to implement the feature and ensure the test suite still works. My versioned so patch is *way* smaller. I actually think because this is almost exclusively an extension to a build-time configuration option, and doesn't really change the language, a PEP shouldn't be necessary. But by the same token, I'm willing to write a new one (and *not* touch PEP 3147) just so that we have a point of reference to record the discussion and decision. So I'll do that. -Barry