[Python-ideas] discouraging direct use of the C-API

[Andrew Barnert]

On May 6, 2015, at 09:23, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A big blocker to making certain sweeping changes to CPython (e.g.
> ref-counting) is compatibility with the vast body of C extension
> modules out there that use the C-API.  While there are certainly
> drastic long-term solutions to that problem, there is one thing we can
> do in the short-term that would at least get the ball rolling.  We can
> put a big red note at the top of every page of the C-API docs that
> encourages folks to either use CFFI or Cython.

Does this mean you also want to discourage boost::python, SIP, SWIG, etc., which as far as I know come down to automatically building C API extensions, and would need to be completely rewritten if you wanted to make them work a different way?

> Thoughts?
> 
> -eric
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