[Python-Dev] Python 3 optimizations, continued, continued again...

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:08 AM, stefan brunthaler <s.brunthaler at uci.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 09:46, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> Let's make one thing clear. The Python core developers need to be able
>> to reproduce your results from scratch, and that means access to the
>> templates, code generators, inputs, and everything else you used. (Of
>> course for stuff you didn't write that's already open source, all we
>> need is a pointer to the open source project and the exact
>> version/configuration you used, plus any local mods you made.)
>>
>> I understand that you're hesitant to just dump your current mess, and
>> you want to clean it up before you show it to us. That's fine. But
>> until you're ready to show it, we're not going to integrate any of
>> your work into CPython, even though some of us (maybe Benjamin) may be
>> interested in kicking its tires. And remember, it doesn't need to be
>> perfect (in fact perfectionism is probably a bad idea here). But it
>> does need to be open source. Every single bit of it. (And no GPL,
>> please.)
>>
> I understand all of these issues. Currently, it's not really a mess,
> but much more complicated as it needs to be for only supporting the
> inca optimization. I don't know  what the time frame for a possible
> integration is (my guess is that it'd be safe anyways to disable it,
> like the threaded code support was handled.)

It won't be integrated until you have published your mess.

> As for the license: I really don't care about that at all, the only
> thing nice to have would be to have a pointer to my home page and/or
> the corresponding research, but that's about all on my wish list.

Please don't try to enforce that in the license. That usually
backfires. Use Apache 2, which is what the PSF prefers.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)