On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Tom Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone packaging pypy for debian? Why I ask: > > I'm putting a FOSS project on ShiningPanda, which runs Debian 6 (squeeze), > for CI. After seeing the speedup from pypy on my own hardware, I'd like to > use pypy on SP, but they don't currently offer that option. Hence I'd like to > ask SP to provide pypy along with the CPython versions they provide (rather > than hafta provide it myself in each build environment I use, which would add > to my setup time, defeating the purpose), but before I did that, I'd like to > get some idea of how much work would be entailed, i.e., how much pain I'd be > asking them to endure. > > Adopting pypy would presumably be trivial for SP if there were pypy .deb, or > even a PPA, but I'm not seeing anything like that after ubuntu hardy. Am I > missing something? I see RH (appears to be) regularly packaging pypy, so I'm > hoping someone's doing this for debian. If not, there's always `alien`.
I think what's actually needed is a PPA maintainer (or a debian champion). Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
