On Feb 9, 5:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben> Python extensions written in C require recompilation for each new > Ben> version of Python, due to Python limitations. > > Can you propose a means to eliminate this limitation?
By putting an intermediate layer between the extensions and the language. I suppose this is essentially what ctypes does, except from the other direction. If someone could explain the limitation in detail, I expect ways could be found around it. After all, I don't know of any other systems that require you to recompile all the extensions when you upgrade the application. Winamp is one application that comes to mind which has kept plugins working across many upgrades. I doubt they're still compiling with Visual Studio 6. Perhaps it works because they have a more restrictive API that isn't passing non-primitive types across the DLL boundary. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
