STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:
Ned Deily:
> My preference remains to not make the flags change at all
Well, "m" in ABI flags became useless around Python 3.4. I don't see the point
of pretending that the "m" ABI is different and then provide two names for the
same thing:
python3.8 and python3.8m
python3.8-config and python3.8m-config
man python3.8 and man python3.8m
etc.
I'm not sure why, but on Fedora /usr/bin/python3.7 and /usr/bin/python3.7m are
two separated files... with the same content (ex: same MD5 sum). Well, it's
just 17 KiB each :-) /usr/bin/python3.7-config is a symlink to
python3.7m-config.
The change itself is painful for distributors like Red Hat (Fedora, RHEL), but
things should be simpler once the change is done.
My long-term goal is to get a single ABI for everything: CPython, PyPy,
RustPython, MicroPython, etc. :-) Maybe it's not possible, but at least I would
like to move towards this goal!
Overall project:
*
https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html#debug-build-uses-the-same-abi-as-release-build
* https://pythoncapi.readthedocs.io/
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resolution: -> fixed
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed
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