On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 15:29 -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2009/4/16 holger krekel <[email protected]>: > > Hi Maciej, > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 13:27 -0600, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> That might sound a bit like bike sheding, but I would like to talk a > >> bit about naming scheme. > >> > >> What do you think about actually naming PyPy release 2.5 after > >> language version it supports? > >> > >> We can invent suffixes like pypy-2.5-something in order to release > >> still 2.5, but which supports some more > >> things (like JIT?). > > > > i think that PyPy's advances are not too much related to > > language compat issues but rather to better GCs, stackless, > > JITting, optimisations, etc. So i don't see the language > > compat as the central theme. > > But to users of Python on PyPy, the corresponding CPython version is > more important than say a new GC. Perhaps there should be two > versions?
We are still doing a source-release, though. Maybe a name like "pypy-c-2.5-1.1" for the generated and compiled Python interpreter would make sense? That would also likely be the one that people see once it e.g. gets packaged in debian. best, holger > > -- > Regards, > Benjamin > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev -- Metaprogramming, Python, Testing: http://tetamap.wordpress.com Python, PyPy, pytest contracting: http://merlinux.eu _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
