On 13 June 2018 at 02:23, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > So, to summarize, we need something like six for C? >
Yeah, pretty much - once we can get to the point where it's routine for folks to be building "abiX" or "abiXY" wheels (with the latter not actually being a defined compatibility tag yet, but having the meaning of "targets the stable ABI as first defined in CPython X.Y"), rather than feature release specific "cpXYm" ones, then a *lot* of the extension module maintenance pain otherwise arising from more frequent CPython releases should be avoided. There'd still be a lot of other details to work out to turn the proposed release cadence change into a practical reality, but this is the key piece that I think is a primarily technical hurdle: simplifying the current "wheel-per-python-version-per-target-platform" community project build matrices to instead be "wheel-per-target-platform". Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia
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