[Python-Dev] API bloat

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 12:43 pm, ncoghlan at gmail.com wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Mark Shannon <marks at dcs.gla.ac.uk> 
>wrote:
>>OK, so UnicodeError_xxx is important for codecs, but surely this sort 
>>of
>>argument could be made for lots of things.
>>Don't forget that for each function added to the API,
>>all other implementations have to support it forever.
>
>Other implementations that want to support CPython extensions should
>focus their efforts on the limited API defined in PEP 384. That will
>not only be a lot easier, it will also be less of a moving target.

And will produce what kind of results?  How many extension libraries 
work with this subset?

Jean-Paul