Re: python packaging infrastructure

[Wouter van Heyst <larstiq@larstiq.dyndns.org>]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:54:18AM -0500, Derrick Hudson wrote:

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> | Anyhow, I hate to see Jython orphaned, perhaps down the road (after
> | the next Jython release) I'll come back to find out what it takes to
> | take over the package maintenance of Jython in Debian.
> 
> I'd like to see Jython remain alive, at least until PyPy is mature
> enough to replace it.  Have you looked at PyPy?  Architecturally it
> sounds a lot like gcc except its "front-end" is for python only.  It
> should be practical to create Java templates for PyPy to use in the
> backend to produce a python implementation that executes in a JVM.  It

I can't back it up, but I thought this was possible already, as well as
a clisp backend. I know for certain C and LLVM work.

Wouter van Heyst