> What I think would be a mistake would be to define the API in terms of > Windows-specific quirks. All this discussion seems bent on satisfying > the needs of Windows developers at the expense of non-Windows > developers. "FILE*" is a perfectly standard C feature (and a > widely-used one at that). If Windows doesn't handle it correctly then > it's a Windows issue and we shouldn't annoy other people by refusing > access to that feature.
The point of the PEP is specifically to solve Python versioning problems *ON WINDOWS*. It would be pointless if it didn't have that effect. If you think it doesn't affect you, then you can just ignore the stable ABI. > After all, we don't usually try to workaround platform-specific > bugs (not as a low level such as the C API level); at worse, we mention > their existence in the docs. Yes, and that policy is an ongoing annoyance, one that PEP 384 tries to remedy. Only after I wrote the PEP, I learned that it can have uses for Linux distributions, too. 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
