On 3 December 2013 20:19, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Only folks that actually understand the difference between > static and dynamic linking and wrapper modules vs self-contained > accelerator modules are likely to understand what "shared external > binary dependency" means, so I agree it's not a useful phrase to use > in a recommendation aimed at folks that aren't already experienced > developers.
"... aren't already experienced C/C++/etc developers". There are lots of higher level languages (including Python itself) that people can be an experienced in and still have never had the "pleasure" of learning the ins and outs of dynamic linking and binary ABIs. Foundations made of sand - it isn't surprising that software sometimes fails, it's a miracle that it ever works at all :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig