Re: rust and python

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM Marco Atzeri <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yeah, hm, I'm not sure how to handle that best in a distro with
multiple parallel versions. On Linux it's easy because there are no
file name conflicts and no explicit linking in extensions.