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[Guido van Rossum]

>   MH> An offer too good to refuse ;) We recently deprecated the
>   MH> DL_EXPORT and DL_IMPORT macros, replacing them with purpose
>   MH> oriented macros.  In an effort to cleanup the source, it would
>   MH> be good to remove all such macros from the Python source tree.
> 
> Would it make any sense to backport the new macros to the 2.2 branch?
> It might ease the life of extension writers who want their code to
> work with either version.  The practical problem, however, is that
> their code would only work with a too-be-released 2.2.2.

Maybe both the old and the new macros could be supported by 2.2.2?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)