Mailman 3 May 2007 - pypy-dev

building pypy on a powerpc running linux
by Alexandre Fayolle 14 May '07

14 May '07

Hi, I know pypy builds on macos X, but has anyone tried (and succeeded) to translate on a powerpc running Linux? The Debian autobuilders have failed to compile it, and I wonder if this is an issue in my package or just that this platform is not supported. The build logs are available at http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=pypy Thanks in advance -- Alexandre Fayolle

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Dyla 07
by Armin Rigo 13 May '07

13 May '07

Hi all, I didn't do any work on any Dyla'07 paper so I was about to post some apology and thanks to the people that proposed to help me even though they were more busy than me with EU reports. Recently I have not been up to working on anything at all (which is not an excuse but just a fact I guess). However, the submission deadline was extended to May 27th. I still don't know if I'm going to find enough motivation, but that gives us a second chance... A bientot, Armin

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quick review of final activity report?
by holger krekel 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi all! here is our preliminary "final activity report" draft which summarizes the whole PyPy EU project period on several levels. (Heh, the EU part is not finished yet - we are heading towards the final review on 31st May). http://codespeak.net/~hpk/pypy-final-activity-may-10-2007.pdf If you ad-hoc review and feedback on the report during the next 12-14 hours (until friday 11th 9am UTC+2) i could still try to incorporate changes before it is declared finished and published ... particularly readability and sense-making are of interest :) feedback is welcome also later, of course. best & thanks, holger -- merlinux GmbH Steinbergstr. 42 31139 Hildesheim http://merlinux.de tel +49 5121 20800 75 (fax 77)

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scheme parser.
by Jakub Gustak 10 May '07

10 May '07

I have been experimenting with rlib.parsing.ebnfparse today. One thing which is not described, if you want to use ebnfparse you have to: > py.test.config.parse([]) Can anyone explain what happens there? Is there any other "magical" initialization stuff which i have to know before going on? ebnfparse seems to work just fine, so I will stick with it, unless there is any contraindication. Now I am considering if the parser should generate some bytecode? Maybe pickling (not rpythonic) AST tree will be just fine (like in js interpreter)? Sincerely, Jakub Gustak

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Forward: Dyla 07
by Terry Reedy 08 May '07

08 May '07

Posted on c.l.p., but possibly more relevant here: ------------- Dear colleges, You might want to consider Dyla'07 as a good venue to present your work and your favourite programming language. Regards, Alexandre ************************************************************************** Call for Papers Dyla 2007: 3rd Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications July 31, 2007, Berlin (Collocated with ECOOP 2007) http://dyla2007.unibe.ch ************************************************************************** Objective ========= The goal of this workshop is to act as a forum where we can discuss new advances in the conception, implementation and application of object-oriented languages that radically diverge from the statically typed class-based reflectionless doctrine. The goal of the workshop is to discuss new as well as older "forgotten" languages and features in this context. Topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to: - agents, actors, active object, distribution, concurrency and mobility - delegation, prototypes, mixins - first-class closures, continuations, environments - reflection and meta-programming - (dynamic) aspects for dynamic languages - higher-order objects & messages - ... other exotic dynamic features which you would categorize as OO - multi-paradigm & static/dynamic-marriages - (concurrent/distributed/mobile/aspect) virtual machines - optimisation of dynamic languages - automated reasoning about dynamic languages - "regular" syntactic schemes (cf. S-expressions, Smalltalk, Self) - Smalltalk, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Lisp, Self, ABCL, Prolog, ... - ... any topic relevant in applying and/or supporting dynamic languages. We solicit high-quality submissions on research results and/or experience. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should not exceed 10 pages, LNCS format (www.springer.com/lncs). Submission ========== Prospective attendees are requested to submit a position paper or an essay (max 10 pages, references included) on a topic relevant to the workshop to Alexandre Bergel (Alexandre.Bergel(a)cs.tcd.ie). Submissions are demanded to be in .pdf format and should arrive before May 13, 2007. A selection of the best papers will be made, which will require an extension for an inclusion in a special issue in Electronic Communications of the EASST (eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de). For this purpose, a new deadline will be set after the workshop. Moreover, Springer publishes a Workshop-Reader (as in the case of previous ECOOPs) which appears after the Conference and which contains Workshop-Reports (written by the organizers) and not the position papers submitted by the participants. Important dates =============== Submission due: May 13, 2007 Notification of Authors: May 31, 2007 ECOOP'07 Early Registration Date: June 15th. Workshop: July 31, 2007 Organisers ========== Alexandre Bergel Wolfgang De Meuter Stéphane Ducasse Oscar Nierstrasz Roel Wuyts Program committee ================= Alexandre Bergel (LERO & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Johan Brichau (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Pascal Costanza (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Stéphane Ducasse (University of Annecy, France) Erik Ernst (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany) Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern, Switzerland) Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA) Dave Thomas (Bedarra Research Labs, Canada) Laurence Tratt (King's College London, UK) Roel Wuyts (IMEC & Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

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Did anything happen with the mini coding Sprint in Poland idea?
by Laura Creighton 07 May '07

07 May '07

Dethe Elza is planning his European vacation, and he is flying into Amsterdam, August 16th and then going to Prague. The bulk of the vacation will be in Sofia, with some side trips, and then back to Amsterdam for a return trip Sept 11. So he misses EuroPython. He'd like to meet pypyers face to faqce and hack if possible. Do we have anything planned yet? Laura

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What about a Slate front-end?
by Paul deGrandis 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hi all, Not too long ago there was a discussion about possible front-ends. I know someone here is part of the tunes project... so how about a slate front end? There has been recent talk on the slate mailing list about the deficiencies with the current VM and some weird setup and handling of the stack... perhaps pypy is a better setup for the language. Just a thought. Regards, Paul

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