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

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

We're also slightly hindered by the fact that not all of us got
privilages so far (Antonio Cuni in particular).

>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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