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Author Michael.Felt
Recipients Michael.Felt, dstufft, eric.araujo, frenzy, mattip, miss-islington, paul.moore, pitrou, steve.dower, tarek, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
Date 2020-12-08.10:11:29
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On Windows - in distutils (?) did they perhaps make a change only for windows, for whatever reason.

I don't have a python3.7 pr a 3.8 handy atm.

Not sure what 'distutils' pip updates either - but with py36 and pip 20.2.4 and setuptools 40.6.2 I get:

Python 3.6.12 (default, Sep 23 2020, 08:27:01) [C] on aix5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sysconfig
>>> sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX')
'.so'
>>> from distutils import sysconfig
>>> sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX')
'.so'

I am guessing that distutils has not updated - whatever - for AIX, FreeBSD, and perhaps others.

@mattip: is the problem perhaps with distutils rather than a particular platform. I also admit, I do not know what 'EXT_SUFFIX' is suppossed to return. From past behavior I took it to mean a file 'tag' for files that are accessed using dlopen().

Is it - perhaps - that different platforms have different needs or abilities - and the error is not the platform - but the adequacy of tests to differentiate platform behavior. I am guessing now - but maybe that is why distutils has not changed AIX and FreeBSD and maybe more.
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