[pypy-dev] Killing OOType? (was Re: Translating pypy on FreeBSD with CLI backend)

[Alex Gaynor]

I agree with this, the abstraction doesn't really work well right now,
there's way too much code duplication. If we seriously want to have an
lltype/ootype distinction this should be redone from scratch (IMO).

Alex


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt <
Ronny.Pfannschmidt at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> since there basically is no maintained ootype backend
> i wonder about removing the ootype vs lltype abstraction together with
> them,
>
> comments?
>
> -- Ronny
>
> On 05/08/2013 11:12 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, David Naylor<naylor.b.david at gmail.**com<naylor.b.david at gmail.com>>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 13:35:00 Alex Gaynor wrote:
>>>
>>>> We should probably just delete it at this point, it's completely
>>>> unmaintained, doesn't work, and just confuses people; if someone wants
>>>> to
>>>> ressurect it, hg log should be good enough.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't JVM in a similar state (although I think someone may be working on
>>> it,
>>> if my memory of emails on the list serves me).
>>>
>>
>> It is
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