In a message of Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:17:34 +0200, "Ondrej Certik" writes: <snip> >So what is your priority now with pypy? I think it has such an >enormous potential, but currently for me it's just a playground. Do >you plan to apply pypy in some area, where people will use it as the >best technology available in there? Or do you plan more to have pypy >just as a means of testing new JIT ideas? > >Ondrej
We really want to push this as a real language that people should use to solve real problems they have. Currently, however, things are in a bad need of a cleanup. While it was terrific to have the EU funding which let many of us work on pypy full time, the deadlines for deliverables were such that many things were hacked together in ways that are ok for a prototype but not really robust enough for production use. We are planning our next sprint to work on the roughest of these. Then, of course, the problem is that there are so many things that could be the 'next step' for PyPy. Some of us (me for instance) are actively looking for paying customers who have a business case for wanting PyPy to do X. Tim Parkin, who designed the current python.org site is also interested in working on finding out what should be the next step for PyPy. He is collecting opinions, and people who are willing to put money where their mouth is here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPyDonations It would be nice to get PyPy to such a state that it again had many tasks for those people who don't feel up to hacking the Just in Time Specialiser. A better garbage collector is necessary, but I think that people find that intimidating as well. We're much further along with the new scheme for working with C extensions, and that too is necessary. It would be nice to find out exactly who wants what next from PyPy, and perhaps more importantly, who would be willing to help on PyPy, but cannot now, and what they would need in the way of changes before they could contribute. Besides fixes for the bugs you have reported, is there anything in particular you wish we were doing next? Laura _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
