[pypy-sprint] ANN: PyPy Sprint in Paris October 10th to 16th

[Beatrice During]

Hi there

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Amaury Forgeot D Arc wrote:

>
> Hello Beatrice,
>
> (sorry for the empty message - my fingers
> become slippy at the end of the day)

ok ;-)

>> Are there any specific parts of PyPy that you are more interested in?
>> As you could see on codespeak - our focus will be:
>>
>> "Our next sprint is going to focus on threads/GC, various refactorings as
>> well as JIT and continuation-passing style translation of PyPy's Python
>> interpreter"
>>
>> Do we have a matching interest ;-) ?
>
> I hope so.
> At the moment, I'm interested in the translation aspects, and the
> simplification of the generated C code.
> But the integration of JIT and stackless seems exciting too.
> And I've always dreamt of a free-threaded Python without the
> famous GIL...
>
> If I may add another topic: it would be good to give the
> ability to build extension modules outside the main pypy-c.exe
> program. I suppose this can fill another sprint, but some design
> parts could be considered now.

Well - the sprint is the right place to talk to people about it to see 
if/how it fits...maybe you could post your thoughts on this to pypy-dev to 
see the reponse there?

> Now, for more practical details:
> I don't have write access to svn for now, so here is my details.
> Would someone be so kind to add these to paris-2005-people.txt?
> Thanks.
>  Name: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
>  Arrive/Depart: 10/10 - 16/10
>  Accomodation: Private

Done - Holger will fix commit rights.

As I have said to the others joining us - please check out the 
documentation and svn aspects to be well prepared.

> I can come with a laptop.
> It's a Win2K box, with 512MB RAM, and MsDev6 to compile.
> There is no wireless network card. Is it a problem?

Dont think so - we will be sprinting at Logilab and so regular network 
cables should be sufficient - correct me if Im wrong Ludovic?

> Thanks and see you,
>
> --
> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

Well - thanks for coming!

Cheers

Bea

Beatrice Düring			Change Maker
Tel: 031- 7750940		Järntorget 3
Mobil: 0734- 22 89 06		413 04 Göteborg
E-post: bea at changemaker.nu	www.changemaker.nu

 	"Alla dessa måsten och alldaglighet.
 	Allt detta som binder vår verklighet
 	i bojor av skam och rep utav tvång.
 	Alla dessa kedjor som binder vår sång.
 	Jag skall slita dem alla i små, små stycken
 	och möjligtvis av resterna göra mig smycken."
 							- hemlig