On 7/26/10 2:40 PM, MRAB wrote:
Philip Semanchuk wrote:
Hi all,
Does Python guarantee binary compatibility across major, minor and/or micro
versions? I looked through the docs and even with Google's help I wasn't able
to find any official statements on this subject.
Specifically, I'm concerned with binaries created by SWIG for a C++ library
that our project uses. We'd like to ship precompiled binaries for Linux, OS X
and Windows for Python 2.5 and 2.6. I'm hoping that it is sufficient to create
binaries for each Python for each platform (3 * 2 == 6 total precompiled
binaries).
Thanks for any advice and pointers to official documentation on the subject.
There are differences between minor versions, but not, so far as I'm
aware, between micro versions (and I'd be surprised if there were).
As a matter of policy, micro versions are binary-compatible. It's a bug if a
micro revision breaks binary compatibility.
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Robert Kern
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that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
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