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 build systems. Such helper tools will still need to know what versioned names Python will import. Having it in distutils will make the common case easy. It does indicate that external tools will need to know what names a particular Python build supports. It probably shouldn't be hardcoded. -Barry
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