Open techtonik opened 10 years ago
Agreed - there's a placeholder in the binary extensions page, but I think we need to recognise that for a lot of Pythonistas, that page is going to be their first introduction to the idea of shipping compiled code at all.
It's also possible those details may belong in the embedding & extending section of the main CPython docs, or perhaps a new "HOWTO" guide.
Looks like a good task for OpenHatch project.
I was interested in working on this, but (a) the URLs referenced in @techtonik's first comment now point to something ... ahem, a bit unrelated to Python. And (b) there's no longer an "extensions.rst" file in the source. Is this issue still relevant? Do we really mean the "packaging-binary-extensions.rst" file? And if so, there is a mention of API vs. ABI, but I'm willing to admit/agree that it could use some additional explanation.
@reuven oof, I removed those. extensions.rst
has indeed been renamed to packaging-binary-extensions.rst
. I definitely think we could expand more on the API/ABI thing, perhaps by writing a new specification.
https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html and https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/apiabiversion.html#apiabiversion are the relevant CPython C API docs, but I think the packaging user guide needs something a bit more fundamental:
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I wanted to add there links to extensions.rst page:
But could not find a good place to inject this. I am not sure that I completely get the difference between Public API and Stable API from a perspective of extension developer, and also there is no explanation what ABI is about and what is its practical purpose.