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

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>, 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, etc) in the same 
> directory without naming collisions.
>
> The thread starts here:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/100998.html
>
> Except as it specifically impacts Debian, it's probably best to comment 
> on the proposal over in python-dev.

What's the point in making distutils produce versioned .so? Such a 
change is going to break lots of packages for exactly zero benefit: 
helper tools will need to do unversioned->versioned renames anyway,
in order to handle non-distutils build systems.

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Jakub Wilk

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