[PATCHES] Generate shorter name for extra python files

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Hi,

as this will take a bit to discuss, I'll prepare new talloc, tevent
and ldb releases without this.

We need an ldb release for 4.7.0rc3 which is planed for next Tuesday.

metze

Am 13.07.2017 um 22:43 schrieb Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical:
> On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 10:50 +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
>>
>>> The ABI files, which we use in Samba to check when we add new symbols
>>> or change function arguments, need not to be dependent on python
>>> versions, as Samba developers have multiple python3 versions installed,
>>> but we only want one ABI file. 
>>>
>>> However, the vscript and the generated library needs to be python
>>> version specific.
>>>
>>> The old code did this by removing the cpython... string from the ABI
>>> file and symbol names before writing the file.  You need to (carefully,
>>> as it is now a shorter and less unique string) do the same.
>>>
>>
>> Here you are.
> 
> Is it safe to assert that we won't change the ABI with an IS_PYTHON3 or
> similar macro?
> 
> If so, then these are OK (in that respect, I've not done a full
> review), but if it is likely that we will add python3 only helper
> functions to one or other of the py*-util libraries, then we need to
> keep the distinct ABI files for 2 and 3, but not for 3.5, 3.6 et al. 
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 


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