[jira] [Assigned] (MINIFICPP-1902) Explore options to stabilize the python dependency of the scripting extension

["Marton Szasz (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINIFICPP-1902?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Marton Szasz reassigned MINIFICPP-1902:
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    Assignee: Marton Szasz

> Explore options to stabilize the python dependency of the scripting extension
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>                 Key: MINIFICPP-1902
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINIFICPP-1902
>             Project: Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Marton Szasz
>            Assignee: Marton Szasz
>            Priority: Major
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> libpython changes its SONAME every minor version, making it impossible to distribute binaries that work across multiple python versions. The script extension depends on libpython through pybind11.
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> Python itself provides a stable API since 3.2, which is fairly old at this point: [https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html#c-api-stability]
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> Pybind11 and boost.python are both using API functions that are not part of the stable API: [https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/1755]
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> There seems to be some activity on swig to support this stable API: [https://github.com/swig/swig/pull/2190]
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> TODO: explore options, so that binary distributions of the scripting extension is possible



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