Hi Christian, 2007/10/3, Christian Tismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > to what extent has this been discussed? > If this change is not commonly approved, > then I'm asking you to change it to a proposed > addition to the cleanup list, but open for > discussion. > This is public information, and before things > are decided upon, I dislike to see misleading > statements, which might turn into truth just > by pretending they were true.
RCTypes is causing problems since quite a while, I think it's not too much to say that it seriously slowed PyPy's progress. Maybe it was a necessary mistake to make to reach the rffi-solution we have now, of which we think that it is a good one. rffi solves many of the problems that rctypes had, and has mostly the same benefits: It's testable on top of CPython, for example. That RCTypes poses a problem is known since a long time. For a while they were considered solvable, but that turned out to be very hard (if not impossible). This was communicated in numerous ways, for example this mail in August: http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2007q3/003995.html to which nobody replied about the RCTypes issue. Note that I think it is fine to discuss the issue even now. But it is very strange in my opinion to say now that it was never discussed. Cheers, Carl Friedrich _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
