[pypy-dev] Work plan for PyPy

[Antonio Cuni]

Maciek Fijalkowski wrote:

> * What we do with ootypesystem backends and external functions? Right 
> now this is implemented by backends which tends to be a bit ugly 
> implementation. My idea would be to have backend-sensitive 
> implementations which access backend-specific RPython functions for 
> accessing underlaying platform classes/functions/whatever.

I agree. Supporting external functions directly in the backend is 
easier, but now that gencli can call .NET code we don't need those 
functions to be external anymore, we can just provide a real 
implementation for them.

The problem is that at the moment genjvm can't call java functions, so 
this solution would not work for it.

ciao Anto