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Author	vstinner
Recipients	lukasz.langa, ncoghlan, steve.dower, twouters, vstinner
Date	2019-09-30.20:33:03
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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> Binary compatibility of an embedding-only struct is totally unnecessary, as posted on the thread. Well, I'm fine with removing PyConfig.struct_size right now. I wrote two PRs to remove it: * PR 16500 (code) * https://github.com/python/peps/pull/1185 (PEP) We can still add a similar "version" ("struct_size" or whatever) field later if we want to provide a stable ABI for embedded Python.

> Binary compatibility of an embedding-only struct is totally unnecessary, as posted on the thread.

Well, I'm fine with removing PyConfig.struct_size right now. I wrote two PRs to remove it:

* PR 16500 (code)
* https://github.com/python/peps/pull/1185 (PEP)

We can still add a similar "version" ("struct_size" or whatever) field later *if* we want to provide a stable ABI for embedded Python.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-09-30 20:33:03	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, twouters, ncoghlan, lukasz.langa, steve.dower
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