Everything starts out small. I am sure that things will grow if there is a demand for it...
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:55 AM, JanC <use...@janc.invalid> wrote: > andrew cooke wrote: > > > Fuzzyman wrote: > >> On Mar 15, 3:46 pm, Gerhard Häring <g...@ghaering.de> wrote: > > [...] > >>> Me too. I doubt it, though. From an outside view, the project seems to > >>> lack focus. To me, it looks like a research platform, and producing a > >>> successor to CPython seems to be just one out of a dozen projects. > > [...] > >> Well, I know the guys involved and they are focused on making PyPy a > >> practical (and importantly a faster) alternative to CPython. It has > >> just taken a long time - but is finally showing real progress. > >> > >> They did get distracted along the way, but one of things that happened > >> last year was a culling of a lot of the side projects that made it > >> harder to make progress on the core goals. > > > > This is so good to hear. I had exactly the same concerns as Gerhard. > > Thanks for posting some information. > > I think the period as a research platform (IIRC the project was funded by a > research grant from the EU after all[*]) was maybe necessary to get where > they are now...? > > > [*] I'm happy to see at least this part of my taxes being spent for > something good... ;-) > > -- > JanC > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://www.astorandblack.com
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