[Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>Since the Linkage section of PEP 384 specifically states the
>availability of a generic "python3.dll" that dynamically redirects to
>the relevant "python3y.dll" to allow an extension module to run
>against any 3.2 or later Python version as a goal of the PEP, I would
>say that allowing mixing of C runtimes is definitely one of the PEP's
>goals.

It should be explicit about that then, and provide detail about why the
runtime is relevant to Windows programmers (and probably not relevant in
practice for *nix programmers).

-Barry
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