On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 09:46, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
Let's make one thing clear. The Python core developers need to be able to reproduce your results from scratch, and that means access to the templates, code generators, inputs, and everything else you used. (Of course for stuff you didn't write that's already open source, all we need is a pointer to the open source project and the exact version/configuration you used, plus any local mods you made.)
I understand that you're hesitant to just dump your current mess, and you want to clean it up before you show it to us. That's fine. But until you're ready to show it, we're not going to integrate any of your work into CPython, even though some of us (maybe Benjamin) may be interested in kicking its tires. And remember, it doesn't need to be perfect (in fact perfectionism is probably a bad idea here). But it does need to be open source. Every single bit of it. (And no GPL, please.)
I understand all of these issues. Currently, it's not really a mess, but much more complicated as it needs to be for only supporting the inca optimization. I don't know what the time frame for a possible integration is (my guess is that it'd be safe anyways to disable it, like the threaded code support was handled.) As for the license: I really don't care about that at all, the only thing nice to have would be to have a pointer to my home page and/or the corresponding research, but that's about all on my wish list. --stefan