On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:00 AM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote:
> On 13Apr2020 1325, Paul Moore wrote: > > Personally, I'd say that "recommended 3rd party tools" reads as saying > > "if you want a 3rd party tool to build extensions, these are good (and > > are a lot easier than using the raw C API)". That's a lot different > > than saying "we recommend that people writing C extensions do not use > > the raw C API, but use one of these tools instead". > > Yeah, that's fair. But at the same time, saying anything more strong is > an endorsement that we might have to withdraw at some point in the > future (if the project we recommend implodes, for example). > Ok, so put that in a Pros/Cons list that provides guidance as to what interface and tools to choose when writing a new extension module. Personally, I'd put Cython (and other "big" packages, numpy, requests and such) on par with CPython itself with respect to "likely to implode and become unusable."
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