[pypy-dev] How to organize the py3k branch

Antonio Cuni anto.cuni at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 14:40:36 CEST 2011


Hi Amaury,

On 13/10/11 16:37, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
>
> All these changes occur in strings that start with
>     app = gateway.applevel('''
>     "NOT_RPYTHON"
>
> This code is not RPython, and is processed by the new compiler.
> Normally, the host python should not see this code.
>
> Anyway, I run cpython2.6 for my tests, which does not
> allow this new metaclass syntax.
>
> I agree that RPython should stay at version 2.x for the near future.
> For example, space.wrap("hello") takes a 8bit string and produces a W_Unicode...
>
> Thanks for looking at all this!

that's true, but from the commits I saw it seems that you are destroying 
support for the Python 2 interpreter anyway.  Is it correct?
I renew my suggestion of having a meeting where to decide which strategy to 
follow.

Who would like to participate at the meeting?

ciao,
Anto


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