Hey,

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Armin Rigo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 17:57, Martijn Faassen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Oh, I was assuming that PyPy would have one branch supporting both
>> python 2 and python 3. Is that currently not the case? What are the
>> reasons behind not separating the two implementations in different
>> packages?
>
> I think it was not deeply thought out, but was just the simplest route
> to take.  It does give us (mostly for free) a feature that is
> completely essential to have: continuously merging the "default"
> changes in "py3k".  Otherwise it would be a mess that would end up
> with py3k not including all the more recent Python fixes and
> performance improvements we keep doing.

Yes, I figured merging would be the main benefit, that makes sense.
Hopefully it can be made to work in parallel with the Python 2
implementation eventually though.

Regards,

Martijn
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