Hi Sylvain, and thanks a lot for your reply! Please find my comments (and further questions) below:
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Sylvain Thénault <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02 mai 15:11, Yassen Damyanov wrote: >> Yesterday I installed pylint 0.23 on latest Ubuntu Dekstop and there >> seems to be no such support anymore. This was an (unpleasant) >> surprise. >> >> Would someone elaborate on this? What is the motive to remove it? If >> pylint will not support RPython anymore -- anyone knowing another >> checker that does? > > rpython checker has been removed a while ago because: > > - no one was known to use it I see ... I wonder what checker do the pypy guys use for their rpython development ... I guess they are so good so they don;t need one, but I'm not! ;)) > - rpython is a moving target, as you said Yeah ... I think they also don't want to standardize it to prevent it from becoming widely used instead of the pypy interpreter. (Both approaches give significant speed gains so it is possible for someone to try write rpython code instead of using pypy vm with standard python). Anyway. > - at some point, we did change underlying ast structure to support > python >= 2.5 _ast module, and considering the above points, we > choose to no spend time on updating it (this was in pylint 0.17, > more than two years ago). I see ... > Though you should still be able to get it back from the mercurial repository, > and try it to see what's working or not. You'll then hopefuly find help from > the list to get it back on track. Do you think it would be possible some day to merge rpython checking functionality back to the mainstream code (if there are more people using it, not just me) ? E.g. with help from volunteers? Thanks again, Sylvain, talk soon! Yassen _______________________________________________ Python-Projects mailing list [email protected] http://lists.logilab.org/mailman/listinfo/python-projects
