[Python-Dev] Pronouncement needed in issue9675

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Hi,

2010/9/28 Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es>:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9675
>
> Long history sort: Python 2.7 backported Capsule support and
> (incorrectly, in my opinion) marked CObject as deprecated.
>
> All C modules in the stdlib were updated to Capsule (with a CObject
> compatibility layer), except BSDDB, because this change was done late in
> the cycle, the proposed patch was buggy (solvable) and a pronouncement
> was done that CObject was not actually deprecated.
>
> But in python 2.7 release, CObject is marked as deprecated (arg!), so
> when executing python with -We (mark warnings as errors), bsddb fails.
>
> Since I think that adopting Capsule in BSDDB for 2.7.1 would break the
> API compatibility (maybe the CObject proxy would solve this), and since
> a previous pronouncement was done abour CObject not-deprecated in 2.7.x,
> I would like comments.

Is compatibility really broken?
PyCObject_AsVoidPtr(), PyCObject_Import() accept Capsule objects as well.
Or are there other usages of the api pointer?

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc