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

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Yeah, I emailed him this morning, I dropped the ball on his commit bit
post pycon due to email overload. I'm resolving it today.