[Catalog-sig] PyPI trove classifiers for alternate language implementations

[Michael Foord]

On 15 September 2011 15:24, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> >
> >> Programming Language - Python - Implementation - CPython
> >> Programming Language - Python - Implementation - pypy
> >> Programming Language - Python - Implementation - jython
> >> Programming Language - Python - Implementation - IronPython
> >
> > Opinions on this proposal? (including the specific spelling,
> > leaving alone that the separator is ::, not -)
>
> Better user CPython, PyPy and Jython for consistency with the
> other Trove spellings.
>
> I'm -0 on the "Implementation" part. Do we really need this ?
>


Jython, PyPy and CPython are not "programming languages" they're
implementations of the Python programming language - so I would prefer to
differentiate like this.


>
> Also: What about release versions of those implementations ?
>
>
We could always add those later if anyone really wanted them (for Python we
have the broad "Python" *plus* version specific categories). In other words,
YAGNI (for now).

Michael


> Jython and IronPython appear to follow the CPython release
> versions, but PyPy uses its own version scheme.
>
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