[pypy-dev] How to translate 300000 lines of C

[Christian Tismer]

holger krekel wrote:
...

> Anyway, i think we can start from 'both sides'. 
> Manually rewriting stuff in python and work on
> a C-to-Python translator. 

Absolutely, everybody should work on the ends
she sees fit. To get something quickly, we cannot
rely on C2P right now. To get everything translated,
we cannot wait for the manpower to do it by hand.
Furthermore, for certain modules it makes very much
sense to write them by hand, *and* we probably need
some as a template, reference implementations
for targetting the C2P processor.

Plenty to do, trying all paths in parallel will
move the project forward. It also cannot all be
planned in advance, I'm thinking more of evolution
and Extreme Programming style than of classical design.

will-be-extreme-programming-fun -y y'rs chris

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