[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted

[Éric Araujo]

> even without having any changes in distutils it would make sense to know if an 
> extension can be built with the restricted ABI, so maybe it is better to defer 
> any changes to the extension soname, and provide a check for an extension if it 
> conforms to the restricted ABI, even if the extension still uses the python 
> version specific soname.

Python’s setup.py has an example in Martin’s branch:

  ext = Extension('xxlimited', ['xxlimited.c'],
                  define_macros=[('Py_LIMITED_API', 1)])

<http://codereview.appspot.com/3262043/patch/1/68>

This is possible with today’s distutils.  I don’t know if it’s enough to
build stable-ABI-conformant extension modules.

Regards