[Python-Dev] PEP 399: Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibiilty Requirements

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> I think this social problem of the PEP can only be solved if the CPython
> project stops doing the major share of the stdlib maintenance, thus freeing
> its own developer capacities to focus on CPython related improvements and
> optimisations, just like the other implementations currently do. I'm not
> sure we want that at this point.

We've made a start on that aspect by granting CPython access to
several of the core developers on the other VMs. The idea being that
they can update the pure Python versions of modules directly rather
than having to wait for one of us to do it on their behalf.

Of course, as Maciej pointed out, that is currently hindered by the
fact that the other VMs aren't targeting 3.3 yet, and that's where the
main CPython development is happening.

Cheers,
Nick.

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