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
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