Re: versioned .so files (over in python-dev)

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >What's the point in making distutils produce versioned .so? Such a change is >going to break lots of packages for exactly zero benefit: Why so? >helper tools will need to do unversioned->versioned renames anyway, in order >to handle non-distutils

Re: versioned .so files (over in python-dev)

2010-06-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Barry Warsaw , 2010-06-24, 17:31: For those of you not closely following python-dev, I've made a proposal for versioned .so file naming for Python 3.2. It would allow us to place extension module .so files for different Python versions (or really, Python builds, e.g. 3.2/3.3, debug, UCS2/4,

versioned .so files (over in python-dev)

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
For those of you not closely following python-dev, I've made a proposal for versioned .so file naming for Python 3.2. It would allow us to place extension module .so files for different Python versions (or really, Python builds, e.g. 3.2/3.3, debug, UCS2/4, etc) in the same directory without namin