Nogil installers on Windows

[colesbury (Sam Gross)]

@gpshead

As such, the letter "n" as current PEP 703 text suggests should not be used for an ABI tag. We’d prefer the letter "t" (read it as implying “threading” and short for “free-threading”). This needs a minor update to the PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython | peps.python.org section.

Great – I’ll put up a PR to update the PEP.

@gpshead

A more appropriate term … is “free-threading”

While I understand the objections to “nogil”, I don’t think “free-threading” is likely to be understood by people-who-are-not-us. It’s not a common programming or computer science term. Outside of Python core development, I’ve only seen the term frequently used as part of Microsoft’s COM.

@hugovk

A suggestion by @bluetech in the earlier thread was “Multicore Python”:

I think this is a good name for the current efforts to improve Python’s multicore story, but doesn’t differentiate well between PEP 703 and per-interpreter GIL, which can be important in some contexts. (like build modes and ABIs). @eric.snow has been using this term for a while now.