Hello, On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:25:51 -0700 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> This thread has devolved into a flame war. I think we should trust the > Micropython implementers (whoever they are -- are they participating > here?) I'm a regular contributor. I'm not sure if the author, Damien George, is on the list. In either case, he's a nice guy who prefer to do development rather than participate in flame wars ;-). And for the record, all opinions expressed are solely mine, and not official position of MicroPython project. > to know their users and let them do what feels right to them. > We should just ask them not to claim full compatibility with any > particular Python version -- that seems the most contentious point. "Full" compatibility is never claimed, and understanding it as such is optimistic, "between the lines" reading of some users. All of: announcement posted on python-list (which prompted current inflow of MicroPython-related discussions), README at https://github.com/micropython/micropython , and detailed differences doc https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Differences make it clear there's no talk about "full" compatibility, and only specific compatibility (and incompatibility) points are claimed. That said, and unlike previous attempts to develop a small Python implementations (which of course existed), we're striving to be exactly a Python language implementation, not a Python-like language implementation. As there's no formal, implementation-independent language spec, what constitutes a compatible language implementation is subject to opinions, and we welcome and appreciate independent review, like this thread did. > Realistically, most Python code that works on Python 3.4 won't work > on Micropython (for various reasons, not just the string behavior) > and neither does it need to. That's true. However, as was said, we're striving to provide a compatible implementation, and compatibility claims must be validated. While we have simple "in-house" testsuite, more serious compatibility validation requires running a testsuite for reference implementation (CPython), and that's gradually being approached. > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
