> I read the article with excitement, but unfortunately that article is > total BS -- it's reporting at its worst, and then some. The actual > project that article is about > > http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan > > seems to be massively misrepresented by the arstechnica aricle. As > far as I can tell this is in no way some official "Google project" as > the article claims, and there's not much on that wiki that gives me > confidence the project members know what they are doing. >
I definitely didn't abhor the article as much as William, but clearly the writer was confused about a few things. However, it looks like the Unladen Swallow folks are doing something I commend -- trying to get pieces of their branch merged into mainline CPython a little bit at a time. Here's a post by the head of the project: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087737.html (where he immediately clarifies the bit about google-sponsored), which is part of the following thread on python-dev: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087728.html It seems like some of the Python folks are already stepping up to review some of the code, which means we'll probably get some first-hand opinions soon on whether or not they know what they're doing. -cc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
