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[Python-Dev] PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 21:43:22 CET 2011 
2011/11/22 Philip Jenvey <pjenvey at underboss.org>

> One reason to target 3.2 for now is it's not a moving target. There's
> overhead involved in managing modifications to the pure python standard lib
> needed for PyPy, tracking 3.3 changes as they happen as well exacerbates
> this.
>
> The plans to split the standard lib into its own repo separate from core
> CPython will of course help alternative implementations here.
>

I don't see how it would help here.
Copying the CPython Lib/ directory is not difficult, even though PyPy made
slight modifications to the files, and even without any merge tool.

OTOH when PyPy changed minor versions (from 2.7.0 to 2.7.2 IIRC) most of
the work was to follow the various tiny fixes made to the built-in modules:
_io, _ssl and _multiprocessing.

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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