On 2026-01-16 2:18 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
Another possibility would be to make the symbol reference weak in
Python, and use the functionality only if it is available in the
installed version of Expat.
That is technically possible, but:
It is my opinion that offering versioned symbols to expat is so simple
that even a caveman could do it (insert insurance commercial here),
while refactoring Python's code (not to mention every other application
that uses the new symbols) is not something I would ask package
maintainers to do.
And, I think the Python developers might be reluctant to do that,
because they already need 2 code paths to support "building without the
new API and running without the new ABI," and "building with the new API
and running with the new ABI," while you are proposing a third code path
in which they build with the new API and run without the new ABI. Your
proposal is not an alternative, it's an addition. They might accept the
change, but I would expect pushback from a lot of projects.
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