[pypy-dev] PyPy cleanups

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

Good to hear. There is no reason for maintainer, but we need llvm backend to
be refactored so it would be easier to maintain for whoever makes changes.
Also right now llvm version dependency is so bizzare that I cannot really
test it on my machine without additional hassle. I can help with that, if
possible.

Cheers,
fijal

On 9/27/07, Richard Emslie <richardemslie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Sorry it has taken forever to reply...
>
> >
> > This is the list of possibly orphaned parts of pypy.
> > We should consider each item here and think in detail
> > what to do with them. They're mostly broken or not
> > actively maintained. If nobody shows an interest
> > to maintain them, deleting would be the best solution
> > to avoid clutter. Also they pose a maintenance burden
> > when we proceed with the needed large refactorings.
> > Maybe it is also a solution to lazily delete them as
> > they are broken by refactoring if nobody steps up.
> >
> > Of course deleted things can easily be brought back from
> > svn history, if there is renewed interest. So the above
> > may sound scarier than it is.
> >
> > * llvm backend - we need a maintainer for that
>
> As much I as I agree that deleting code is better than leaving it to
> rot beyond all recognition, I'm still not sure why we need a
> "maintainer" for this given that no other backend has an explicit
> maintainer.  But anyways I will take that role if it needs be.  Most
> work to be done is in factoring code out of genc and making rffi work
> (which I am guessing making changes to rffi, but not sure since
> haven't been following things for last however many months).
>
> >   * pyrex backend (llvm depends on it tough)
>
> There is no longer this dependency.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
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