alt Hacker NewsAs a maintainer of a Python module that uses abi3 now, thank you!
Just one question: any plans to promote APIs like PyUnstable_EnableTryIncRef() and PyUnstable_TryIncRef() into the limited API? So far we have found that these APIs are necessary to implement the weak-valued caches we've always used in the past: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/6559a9f9622...
I’m glad to see there’s ongoing work to get protobuf working!
I doubt PyUnstable APIs will get promoted directly to the limited API without at least a release or two in the regular version-specific API first.
That said, if you would be willing to start a thread on discourse describing your need and use-case, that is probably the first step to stabilizing the APIs you want. It may also turn out there’s an alternate way to get protobuf working.
Please do feel free to reach out privately. I’d love to be able to chat with people working on protobuf and grpcio, they come up reasonably often and it’s hard to get official updates from inside Google.