[pypy-dev] pypy on Tim Bray's blog

Martijn Faassen faassen at startifact.com
Wed Nov 14 16:09:03 CET 2007


Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> 2007/11/14, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com>:
>> Your Python-centric work is not done until I have a serious shot at
>> downloading or building a PyPy-based interpreter, run it on top of
>> *some* backend, and can start porting, say, Zope 3 on top of it. Or
>> Twisted. Or lxml. Or Pygame.
> 
> Well, no Python implementation other than CPython runs Zope, Twisted,
> lxml, or pygame. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
> 
> Although I believe Jython ran some part of old version of Twisted. And
> effbot included IronPython support in ElementTree 1.2.7.
> 
> But then, Jython and IronPython don't *need* to run Zope. Their
> survival isn't dependent on that.

Sure, you're right, that's true. See another mail where I give a better 
description of what I mean with "done": something that motivates people 
to use it in production.

That said, I am of course also seriously interested in running existing 
code on the PyPy platform.

Regards,

Martijn




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