[Python-Dev] backporting stdlib 2.7.x from pypy to cpython

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Jun 12 18:44:14 CEST 2012


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> On 12/06/2012 15:40, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
>>
>> Ah, but you helped make my point! For the people working on CPython,
>> python-dev is a natural place. But what about PyPy, IronPython, or Jython
>> (toss in Cython or any future VMs and it just became an even larger spread
>> of teams)? Do they naturally think to discuss things on python-dev or
>> their
>> own list? If anything this new list would act as a showing of good will
>> that python-dev does not view CPython as the centre of the world when it
>> comes to VMs (but obviously does for the language) and that the other VM
>> authors' time as just as important by not forcing them to wade through
>> python-dev (or have to set up a special filter just for python-dev to get
>> the occasional email thread).
>>
>
> A bit late in the day and possibly the most stupid suggestion ever, but
> why not name python-dev cpython-dev?  At least everybody would know where
> they stand.
>
>
Way too much stuff out there says python-dev over cpython-dev. Plus
python-dev covers the language of Python as well, which is not specific to
CPython.


> --
> Cheers.
>
> Mark Lawrence.
>
>
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