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Author	hfuru
Recipients	ajaksu2, hfuru
Date	2009年05月16日.21:12:36
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Message-id	<hbf.20090516x2co@bombur.uio.no>
In-reply-to	<1242502767.56.0.76309180668.issue2921@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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Daniel Diniz writes: > Would this break existing code? Source code? Not if you use the PYTHON_NAMESPACE_ONLY trick. Old programs will receive all old definitions in addition to the new autoconf symbols, since they didn't #define PYTHON_NAMESPACE_ONLY. Programs that do #define PYTHON_NAMESPACE_ONLY will lose symbols you can't offer because you couldn't be bothered to make them independent of autoconf. BTW, another "reduced API" variant would be to throw autoconf-independent symbols out to separate .h files. #include those files from the .h files they come from, and document that programs can #include them instead of Python.h.

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Daniel Diniz writes:
> Would this break existing code?
Source code? Not if you use the PYTHON_NAMESPACE_ONLY trick. Old
programs will receive all old definitions in addition to the new
autoconf symbols, since they didn't #define PYTHON_NAMESPACE_ONLY.
Programs that do #define PYTHON_NAMESPACE_ONLY will lose symbols you
can't offer because you couldn't be bothered to make them independent
of autoconf. BTW, another "reduced API" variant would be to throw
autoconf-independent symbols out to separate .h files. #include those
files from the .h files they come from, and document that programs can
#include them instead of Python.h.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009年05月16日 21:12:37	hfuru	set	recipients: + hfuru, ajaksu2
2009年05月16日 21:12:36	hfuru	link	issue2921 messages
2009年05月16日 21:12:36	hfuru	create

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