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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, lemburg, loewis
Date	2009年01月06日.16:27:08
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > I don't follow you: those symbols are not meant for public use anyway, > so we can easily change them without any "costs". The same goes for any > of the private, but still exported symbols in the API, ie. all _Py* > APIs. This is the same that I said: "renaming is cost free" if it is done together with the type change. Martin was right that there is cost associated with any change. The benefit of "completeness" for a specialized build would not justify even having this discussion IMO. On the other hand since the type change needs to be done in order to make the code correct on a 64 bit platform and compile without warnings with gcc, a patch is needed anyways. Since we are already paying the cost of change, renaming is free. There is no disagreement between you and me here.

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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> I don't follow you: those symbols are not meant for public use anyway,
> so we can easily change them without any "costs". The same goes for any
> of the private, but still exported symbols in the API, ie. all _Py*
> APIs.
This is the same that I said: "renaming is cost free" if it is done
together with the type change. Martin was right that there is cost
associated with any change. The benefit of "completeness" for a
specialized build would not justify even having this discussion IMO.
On the other hand since the type change needs to be done in order to
make the code correct on a 64 bit platform and compile without
warnings with gcc, a patch is needed anyways. Since we are already
paying the cost of change, renaming is free. There is no disagreement
between you and me here.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009年01月17日 12:14:32	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.830059 -> 0.0
2009年01月06日 16:27:09	belopolsky	set	recipients: + belopolsky, lemburg, loewis
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2009年01月06日 16:27:08	belopolsky	create

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