gh-108525: Clarify stable ABI documentation to exclude internal C libraries#108582
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encukou commented Aug 31, 2023
I feel that this is not the right place for this note, since in this case the user is not really interacting with the C API. Why would someone look here? In what situation would you use an internal extension with a different build of Python? |
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Closes#108525
Please see issue #108525 for background. I could not find any information in the documentation on if ABI compatibility between bugfix release shared objects is a warranty. However, using the private API in the C support libraries like _ssl appears to be common and would cause ABI breakage on private API changes.
If this interpretation is incorrect, please let me know as I think clarification would be helpful regardless.
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