Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > Just to inform you a bit: Several PyPy developers have sat together and > worked on a very rough roadmap for what tasks need to be done to make > PyPy a realistic replacement for CPython. The work is going on here: > > https://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/planning/roadmap/ > > We plan to work on this some more in the next days. As soon as it is in > a more finished state we will ask write a mail to pypy-dev again and ask > for general feedback.
Hey, I subscribed to the mailing list again. I'm very glad that this planning is taking place. Some feedback: If I read it correctly, the list seems more or less to be about an end-result to the process, a more or less "ideal" production release. Not quite idea perhaps -- library support may still be limited, but yet quite a lot of things are in there. That's good for a goal; one should set the sights high, and I'm sure the project is capable of accomplishing all this technically, eventually. I think it's also very important to space out how you get there: have nearer-term goals with releases that aim to be useful. I think some of the most important thinking that still that needs to go into this roadmap is to figure out how to space this out over multiple releases, where you have multiple releases of hopefully increasing usefulness. This way you set up a positive feedback cycle where people test things and hopefully people will be motivated in contributing in useful places (libraries and such, and reporting bugs). At least, waiting until all of this is completed sounds like it would take quite a while as there are many tasks involved. To get to a list of projected releases, you could restrict your ambitions along various dimensions. For instance, you could focus on only supporting one or a limited amount of backends for a first release. Or you could defer erformance optimizations. Alternatively you could restrict the amount of libraries you are going to implement (this is already in the roadmap, but on the other hand the support for a GUI toolkit is in there too). I'm sure other dimensions exist that I can't even think of. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
