On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 15:05 +0200, Carl Friedrich wrote: > Leonardo Santagada wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > >> Le dimanche 18 octobre 2009 20:32:07, Khalid Shahin a écrit : > >>> The current PyPy logo seems kind of plain. And Ouroboros is a > >>> symbol of > >>> snake biting its tail and represents a cycle, a re-creation of > >>> itself, or a > >>> self-reference. Which would fit nicely in the PyPy logo. > >> I read somewhere that PyPy is no more a project dedicated to Python, > >> but it's > >> a little bit more generic. If the project is splitted in two parts > >> (generic > >> compiler + python interpreter), Ouroboros would be the logo of the > >> python > >> interpreter, right? > > > > Separating the pypy translator/compiler from the pypy python > > interpreter (preferably with different names) is something I would > > love to see happen. The first thing you have to say to someone when > > explaining pypy is "pypy is two completely different (but related) > > things..." so different logos and names would help a lot. > > While I agree, to do this we would have to come up with a name for the > translation toolchain part. And coming up with names is even harder than > coming up with logos.
but it shouldn't fail just because we are afraid of a naming discussion. I suggest a termination criterium for the discussion like the next sprint meetup in Duesseldorf (6th till 13th October) and have attendants agree / vote with or without prior beers. > > But who should get the Ouroboros logo I don't know. > > The Python interpreter part of course. yip. so we need a name for our super-powered ultra-flexible translator. cheers, holger _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
