Re: rust and python

On 06/01/2026 15:21, Christoph Reiter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM Marco Atzeri <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Anything else I should add to a respin of 3.12.12 and 3.9.16 ?
> 
> You could add stable ABI/limited API/abi3 support
> https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/blob/b2b1757ab8752919afea4d0a7c1367dd77729292/python/991-py-limited-api.patch
> (and replace msys-python3.dll with libpython3.dll in there)
> 
> Note that that contains a symbol list generated for 3.12 and I don't
> know if that works for older Python versions. And with the DLL not
> being versioned, only one package can provide it.
> To regenerate the list you'd need to `python
> ./Tools/build/stable_abi.py --generate --cyg-python3dll
> PC/cyg-python3dll.c Misc/stable_abi.toml` with that patch applied.

This does not seem a good idea. I do not have the bandwith to update all 
packages at the same time so multiple version will be always
present.