On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:24:41 +0100, Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In a message of Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:53:18 +0100, Jacob Hallén writes: ><snip> >>> So I'll definitely complain if you spend a lot of time on Ruby (or >>> Smalltalk for that matter) before Python's all the way there. I think >>> that'd be a bad idea for a whole range of reasons - get the last 10% >>> done for Python first before you take even more on your plates. We all >>> know that last 10% tends to be the hardest part. Focus is important. If >>> you can't make that work for Python, you'd have a hard time making it >>> work for any other language too (or convincing people that you can). Of >>> course I realize I have no real voice in this project, but that's my in >>put. > >I don't think you understand the state of our project. There is >practically nothing left that is 'python-centric' left to work on, >unless you have a burning desire to have the 2.5 features we don't >have yet, which is scheduled to get finished next week anyway. This >is hardly any work.
Laura, I think I understand the point you're trying to make, but if you consider library support on PyPy as something which is "python-centric", then there really is a lot of work left to do: very few existing real Python programs can run on PyPy yet. This is not to say stackless, garbage collectors, and the JIT are not important (maybe even more important, I don't know), but they aren't the only remaining things necessary for PyPy to be a good Python runtime. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
