[Python-Dev] Support for marking limited API elements in C API docs

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:25:36 +0200
Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> > ("limited API" is really a bad synonym for "stable ABI" IMO)
> >> 
> >> It's not a synonym: to get a stable ABI, you use the limited API.
> > 
> > I still don't like that name, because it doesn't convey any interesting
> > information. "Stable ABI" is immediately informative.
> 
> It can be changed, but we document the C API, not an ABI.

This is a rather mistaken statement. The only point of using the
"limited API" is because it provides the stable ABI. There is *zero*
other reason of caring about it.

Regards

Antoine.