Re: Stackless Python

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Ethan Glasser-Camp writes:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I asked on #debian-python a few days ago about the odds of Stackless
> being packaged. MadCoder, speaking unofficially, told me that this
> question would be better to ask on this list, and suggested I do some
> research about the compatibility between Stackless and vanilla
> CPython. I went to the Stackless mailing list and asked some questions
> and I think the answer is: "If Stackless isn't binary compatible, it
> is considered a bug in Stackless."
> 
> Here is the thread I started:
> 
> http://www.stackless.com/pipermail/stackless/2006-August/001876.html
> 
> .pyc files should be compatible (compiler and interpreter are not
> changed by Stackless).
> 
> Stackless is 100% compatible with pure Python code.
> 
> There has been an occurrence of a C extension (PyQT) not being binary
> compatible, but this is a rare case, and the Stackless people are
> interested in resolving the bug if it can be reproduced.

long time ago, stackless was distributed as a patch to python. is this
still the case?

  Matthias