Stefan Krah added the comment: Antoine Pitrou <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > large parts of the cdecimal on PyPI (which uses the incompatible > > libmpdec-2.3) would need to be rewritten. > > Ah, so it has an incompatible ABI? That will complicate things a bit :-)
Yes, cdecimal on PyPI is slower, has a different ABI, uses libmpdec-2.3, has subtle differences in the context handling, cannot subclass the context, ... ;) I think a common C API for 2.7 is only possible with a real backport. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22194> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
