GNU python?
Martijn Faassen
faassen at pop.vet.uu.nl
Tue Jun 15 13:35:20 EDT 1999
Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> Maxwell Sayles wrote:
> >
> > Looking to try out python... is there a GNU python for Win9x? and a
> > tutorial maybe?
>
> Not sure just how a GNU Python would differ from the real thing,
* It'd only come with the GNU Public license.
* GNU Python would use the GNU coding style guidelines (in Python!)
* It'd be used for Emacs extensions.
* It'd do all those functional programming things. Closures and macros
and so on.
* Zope wouldn't have been developed because of the GPL, and then would
never have been opensourced.
* No COM support, unless provided by Cygnus.
* Cygnus comes with 'peggton', an experimental development adding static
type checking and more optimizations.
* Any product of <name> would have to be called GNU-Python <name>,
because after all the total size of the library modules imported by that
product would be larger than the product code itself.
Actually-I-like-the-FSF-ly yours,
Martijn
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