Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 16.04.2015 20:21, Ned Deily wrote: > > Ned Deily added the comment: > >> No, PEP 3149 is about the Python ABI, following PEP 3147, >> which implements this for PYC files. > >> The intent is to be able to have mutliple *Python* ABI/API versions >> installed side-by-side, not multiple platform ABI versions :-) > > Well, for all practical purposes, the platform *is* part of the ABI :=)
Yes, but if all your files on your box share the same ABI, do you really want to have all of them come with an extra name extension ? I mean: If all your apples are green, would you write "green" on them to remember ? ;-) All Linux distributions I know place the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of shared libs into different directories rather than putting them all into a single dir and adding ABI flags to the .so files. Windows does this too. FreeBSD as well. Why should Python behave differently ? Just because we can is not really a good answer, IMO. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22980> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com