[Pythonmac-SIG] Plugins and MacPython

[Jack Jansen]

> Hello.  I've just recently been interested in python on the mac and have
> been going through the MacPython source code to become familiar with it
> (in the hopes of helping with it).  I have a question about plugins. 
> What is the current situation with current shared library plugins
> working with future versions of MacPython?  Will they need to be
> recompiled even if the Python API hasn't changed?  It appears that
> macpython support resource based fragments?

As of 1.5.2 the version-number scheme of the library has been sanitized, and 
it is (in principle) possible to create modules that will be 
forward-compatible. In practice I think it'll still be necessary to recompile 
often, because the underlying CodeWarrior C library also changes, and it's 
definitely not safe to have an extension linked against one version of the C 
library and then embedded in a Python that uses another version. But we'll 
see....

> Looking through the mail list archive I've also seen some requests for a
> macpython specific web page.  Does this exist yet?

The only thing we have is http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html, but I have 
very little time to keep it up-to-date. What I would really like is if someone 
else out of this group sets up a starship account to act as a clearinghouse 
for everything macpython-related.
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