> But I believe they would be the same set of problems that PEP 384 > addresses for cross-version compatibility. Because the linker only sees > the C symbols, it shouldn't be possible for the C++ specific parts of > the runtimes to interfere with each other.
Unfortunately, on systems with a global symbol space (and RTLD_GLOBAL loading), symbols in shared libraries loaded from unrelated contexts may conflict. This is one of the motivations to rename the init functions in 3.x. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
