[pypy-dev] state of pypy 3.6 support

[Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick]

Hi all,

Matti asked in an issue what the state of PyPy 3.6 support is, and
whether we're close to an alpha:

https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues/2849/syntax-bug-for-keyword-only-arguments-in

Since that's a strange place to have this discussion, I thought I'd move
it here.

Armin replied:

"what I fear is that we didn't start seriously on the infinite list of
small new things in 3.6. If that's true, then not close at all. It makes
me wonder if we shouldn't do a "3.(5+1/2)" where we take the few major
new things from 3.6 (which are already implemented in the 3.6 branch as
far as I can tell) and release that. I guess they're all syntax tricks
so they could all be backported without trouble."

I am not quite so pessimistic. I agree that we implemented most of the 
big visible features and also I agree that there are quite a few details 
left. However, I think if a few people pushed for a couple for days, we 
could end up in a pretty decent state. I tried to classify the remaining 
problems here:

https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/wiki/Status%20of%20PyPy3%20support%20for%203.6

I will try to slowly chip away at some of these, but given my still
limited time to work right now I'd need some help. Maybe we should have
a dedicated "finish 3.6 virtual sprint" or something?

What do others think?

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich