[pypy-dev] 5.1 has been released

[Matti Picus]

Hi Phyo.
I  am not sure, since I'm so deep in, it's hard to say what level of 
expertise is required.
I would imagine one would have to know how to write snippets of code in 
the C-API of python, and certainly would have to be familiar with the 
PyPY development process. A familiarity with a beloved (to them) C-API 
based module would probably also help, so they can say when it is 
working properly.
Maybe some others have an opinion?
Matti


On 22/04/16 15:17, Phyo Arkar wrote:
> I would like to help , i can get Two Interns who love python a lot . 
> But cpyext needs C skills , right?
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:34 AM Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com 
> <mailto:matti.picus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 22/04/16 07:02, Phyo Arkar wrote:
>     > Congrats PyPy Team!
>     > It keeps getting better and better!
>     > And thank you very much for improving cpyext.
>     >
>     > > Fix edge cases in the cpyext refcounting-compatible semantics
>     (more
>     > work on cpyext compatibility is coming in the cpyext-ext branch, but
>     > isn’t ready yet)
>     >
>     > So thats mean , soon, infuture , cpyext will be fully supported?
>     >
>     For some definition of 'infuture' and 'fully' - yes.
>     The larger goal is to enable the scientific python stack with only
>     minor
>     upstream changes, IMO cpyext-ext will be finished when numpy's test
>     suite passes with no failures on the fork of numpy available on github
>     at github.com/pypy/numpy <http://github.com/pypy/numpy> (not to be
>     confused with the one at
>     bitbucket/pypy/numpy, which uses micronumpy and cffi)
>
>     Eventually, we will modify micronumpy so that app-level python calls
>     with ndarrays will somehow be hijacked to go through micronumpy rather
>     than the C-API functions, assuming this is even possible.
>
>     It is a big job, help is welcome
>     Matti
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