Hello, As I mentioned in the thread concerning Nuitka, I've been trying for a while to get Shedskin packaged for Debian, and I've sent the occasional RFS to the Mentors list, but I'd be interested to know if anyone is interested in taking this work further and/or sponsoring it. Here's the Mentors link:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/shedskin And here's a link to the packaging itself: http://hgweb.boddie.org.uk/shedskin-packaging/ Julian Taylor and Jakub Wilk have been very helpful in giving feedback and correcting my many packaging mistakes. D Haley also gave many suggestions in response to the ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=564533 Although I don't really use Shedskin myself - I have too many other projects currently active, but have been meaning to use it a bit more - the software has made substantial progress towards being a widely applicable solution and can compile non-trivial programs, producing significant speed-ups. One fairly impressive example (that cannot unfortunately be distributed with Debian) is a Commodore 64 emulator: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/2011/06/shed-skin-08-programming-language.html There are also indications that Shedskin is occupying a firm place in the range of solutions employed to increase the performance of Python-based software systems: http://ianozsvald.com/2011/07/25/high-performance-python-tutorial-v0-2-from-europython-2011/ I intend to maintain the package as long as is necessary, although I would also be prepared to let a motivated Debian developer take over the responsibility for maintenance. My aim is primarily to make the inclusion of Shedskin into Debian as little work as possible for others. Regards, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201111160008.22254.p...@boddie.org.uk