On 3/14/11 5:30 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
Many projects, not only the Zope Toolkit needs to support a lot of versions. The Zope component architecture currently supports 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 and is expected to work on 2.7. I don't know if 2.4 or 2.5 can be dropped, but it definitely will be *years* until we can drop support for 2.6. But if I move the PyCObject API to the PyCapsule API, the zope packages will **only work on Python 2.7 and 3.2**. This is obviously not an option. If I do *not* switch, I can't support Python 3.2. That's bad.
For what it's worth, numpy simultaneously supports Python 2.5-2.7 and 3.1-3.2. It uses PyCObject or PyCapsule APIs as appropriate. We do this from the same codebase. We had to add another layer of indirection, but nothing too bad. You can steal our code here:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/core/include/numpy/npy_3kcompat.h#L299 -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ 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
