[pypy-dev] Python 2 vs Python 3 again, and a 2.x-only dependency

Dan Stromberg dstromberg at grokstream.com
Tue Jul 16 10:18:20 EDT 2019


Nupic: https://github.com/numenta/nupic

There's a community edition that supports Python 3.x, but its license 
may prove unsuitable to what we're doing.

On 7/15/19 4:57 PM, Matt Billenstein wrote:
> What is the dependency?
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> m
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> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 04:24:50PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>> What is Pypy planning to do with Python 2.x, now that many packages on Pypi
>> are dropping Python 2.x support?
>>
>> EG, I believe Pypy caters to Scientific Computing, but with Numpy dropping
>> Python 2.x support, will Pypy3 become the more relevant version of Pypy?
>>
>> Will Numpypy be revived?
>>
>> Will there be a pypypi or something similar-to-but-different-from pypi just
>> for pypy?
>>
>> Will 2.x in Pypy become mostly relevant for RPython, and not most developer
>> projects written in Python that use Pypy?
>>
>>
>> I'm asking mostly because I have a large, complex dependency that isn't
>> planning to move to Python 3.x, and I'm wondering if Pypy 2.x might be what
>> we need to keep that code alive. But with Numpy and other dependencies
>> dropping 2.x, that might not be enough.
>>
>> Thanks for Pypy, BTW.� I really like it a lot.
>>
>>
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