[Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

[Donald Stufft]

On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:42 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> See my other message. It's actually heavier, since it requires changes
>> to distutils, PyPI, pip, buildout etc., all which know how to deal with
>> Python minor version numbers, but are unaware of the notion of competing
>> ABIs on Windows (except that they know how to deal with 32-bit vs. 64-bit).
> 
> Is it possible to hijack the "deal with 32-bit vs 64-bit"ness of
> things to handle the different compilers? So, for instance, there
> might be a "32-bit-NewCompiler" and a "64-bit-NewCompiler", two new
> architectures, just as if someone came out with a 128-bit Windows and
> built Python 2.7 for it. Would packaging be able to handle that more
> easily than a compiler change within the same architecture?
> 
> ChrisA
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I’m not sure about this FWIW. I’d have to look at the implementations of
stuff to see how they’d cope with a new thing like that.

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