[Python-Dev] API bloat

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/2/9  <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?

Probably none because it hasn't been released. That's the goal.


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Regards,
Benjamin