[Python-Dev] Another SoC student for CVS access

[Brett Cannon]

On 7/7/05, Jeremy Hylton <jhylton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/05, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Floris is working on wrapping Hotshot to replace 'profile' and
> > replacing pstats so that there will be no more need for 'profile' and
> > thus take care of the licensing problem.  He also hopes to make pstats
> > faster to use.  And if we are really lucky, get threading working for
> > Hotshot.
> 
> I don't think we actually want to get rid of profile and replace it
> with hotshot.  We want to have both tools available.
> 

This is mainly for backup if the original 'profile' is not available. 
Debian, for instance, leaves out 'profile' because of its licensing. 
I don't plan on removing 'profile' from CVS or anything.

-Brett