[Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> What I think would be a mistake would be to define the API in terms of
> Windows-specific quirks. All this discussion seems bent on satisfying
> the needs of Windows developers at the expense of non-Windows
> developers. "FILE*" is a perfectly standard C feature (and a
> widely-used one at that). If Windows doesn't handle it correctly then
> it's a Windows issue and we shouldn't annoy other people by refusing
> access to that feature.

The point of the PEP is specifically to solve Python versioning
problems *ON WINDOWS*. It would be pointless if it didn't have that
effect.

If you think it doesn't affect you, then you can just ignore the stable
ABI.

> After all, we don't usually try to workaround platform-specific
> bugs (not as a low level such as the C API level); at worse, we mention
> their existence in the docs.

Yes, and that policy is an ongoing annoyance, one that PEP 384 tries
to remedy.

Only after I wrote the PEP, I learned that it can have uses for Linux
distributions, too.

Regards,
Martin