Re: Packaging pypy

[Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2011, at 02:19 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
>>On 11/29/2011 09:56 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>>> For what is worth, the .py files (but not the .pyc files) can be
>>> shared among pypy and cpython.
>>
>>IMO, patching pypy to lookup e.g. .pycp files before .pyc files would be
>>appropriate for Debian (already doing something like this for .so files in
>>2.x).  Not sure if backporting pep 3147 would be worth it.
>
> I think supporting PEP 3147 should not be difficult, though I haven't looked
> at the PyPy code, and it seems more fruitful than carrying a delta to look for
> another implementation specific bytecode file.
>
> -Barry

I suppose it's not really that much work, but that would mean waiting
for another pypy release (which is probably 2-3 months away)