[Python-ideas] stdlib with its own release cycle ?

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 00:17:11 CET 2009


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:51 PM, geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, I wasn't clear- there's no need to get Jython running on Android,
>> since you can wrap the class libraries using JNI.
>
> So one would be running CPython and calling into the Android-specific
> Java library via JNI? That doesn't sound like a good use of the
> Android platform to me.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum
>
> PS. My elbow needs a couple more weeks of rest. Limiting myself to
> ultra-short emails.
>

<shrugs> beats being stuck with ASE- which basically means not being
able to make apps for Python, since you can't make .apk's with it- or
trying to port Jython. If you have a better alternative, I'm all ears.

Geremy Condra



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