[Python-Dev] versioned .so files for Python 3.2

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> While the idea is fine with me since I won't have any of my
>> directories cluttered with multiple .so files, I would still want to
>> add some moniker showing that the version number represents the
>> interpreter and not the .so file. If I read "foo.3.2.so", that naively
>> seems to mean to mean the foo module's 3.2 release is what is in
>> installed, not that it's built for CPython 3.2. So even though it
>> might be redundant, I would still want the VM name added.
>
>Well, for versions of the .so itself, traditionally version numbers
>are appended *after* the .so suffix (check your /lib directory :-).

Which is probably another reason not to use foo.so.X.Y for Python extension
modules.  I think it would be confusing, and foo.<tag>.so looks nice and is
consistent with foo.<tag>.pyc.  (Ref to updated patch coming...)

-Barry
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