Limited API preview branch

[da-woods]

Describe your issue

This is abusing the definition of "issue" a bit - it's just informational. However:

I've created a "limited API preview" branch (https://github.com/cython/cython/tree/limited-api-preview) that collates unreviewed/unmerged PRs on the limited API. This is to allow anyone interested to do some advanced testing.

The current status is that this branch should be able to build a working version of Cython under the limited API. Not much beyond that is tested.

It is not my intention to keep this strictly up-to-date with master. It's just a snapshot of something that worked at a point in time.

It's definitely not my intention to release wheels or anything like that.

The branch will disappear in future when the world is merged.

Please feel free to test it/build on it/whatever

[vyasr]

Thank you! This will be handy.

[Gaurav0203Shetty]

can i do this?

[da-woods]

can i do this?

There's nothing really to do.

The "issue" is really just to help people find a branch if they want to test the work-in-progress limited API.

[vyasr]

@da-woods in case you're curious, I've stood up some testing of the repos I'm interested in making limited API-compatible in this PR (I work on RAPIDS at NVIDIA). I'm planning to start getting my local changes for each repository merged up incrementally and I'm using the PR I linked as a convenient environment to test the latest trunk of all the repos building in a combined env. I should be able to rebuild our whole set of libraries on demand to validate our builds against the latest version of the limited-api-preview branch that way, and it'll use some nice machinery like sccache to make the builds fast and easily reproducible.

[da-woods]

@vyasr out of interest why do you want to use limited API?

(I'm just trying to find out if there's any use-cases that I hadn't realised existed)

Edit: I'm assuming rapidsai/build-planning#42 is probably the answer...

[vyasr]

Yup, you found the one.