4 Sep
2008
4 Sep
'08
10:28 p.m.
On 2008-09-04, Don Stewart
The complication to support multiple implementations et al isn't done by any other language group (i.e. libs aren't bundled for multiple python impls, or different C compilers), so I don't see why we should waste time on that either. Pragmatic, I know.
It's indeed not done for C libraries, because that, unlike Haskell, has a stable ABI, even between compilers. Python is in a fairly similar situation, with on-demand compilation and caching being cheap enough that distributing source is good enough. This of course requires a small bit of care in making the source work with multiple revisions of the standard C implementation. -- Aaron Denney -><-