[pypy-dev] External RPython mailing list

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Mon Sep 13 17:42:07 CEST 2010


2010/9/13 Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Bea During <bea at changemaker.nu> wrote:
>>> Maybe we should be clear in our documentation somewhere on
>>> where we stand regarding RPython
>>
>> What about renaming it first?  There is at least one other project
>> that uses the name RPython.  What about something like InterpPy or
>> InterpPython to make it clear that it's supposed to be used to write
>> interpreters?  It doesn't sound terrific but I don't really care --
>> so, comments welcome, but please no infinite discussion on the pros
>> and cons of various names.
>>
>
> While we're at it, how about splitting the translation toolchain from
> pypy interpreter? I don't mean on technical merits, it can still be
> the same or mostly the same source codebase, but more on the
> conceptual level, to have 2 different websites names etc.

-0. We don't need more websites/trees to maintain. Anyway, it's not
clear to me where the split would be, since the translator and the
python interpreter are very interdependent.

-- 
Regards,
Benjamin



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