On 03/20/2011 02:31 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Lennart Regebro<regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
Getting ZCA/ZTK to run on PyPy is probably easier, and actually more useful. Maybe someone would want to mentor that?
This is another porting project. If I was a student, I wouldn't find it very interesting to port some code I hadn't written and probably don't understand from one platform to another. (My earlier comment on py2k->py3k porting wasn't meant as a dig against py3k bit rather to say that I didn't think porting projects would be very interesting.)
That's true, we had bad experience with the Jython project a few years ago. It depends on the students though; I think we had better experience with a project to move Zope 2 forward to a newer version of Python 2.x (if I recall that correctly). But writing new code is a lot more fun. But if you're going to do porting, PyPy is a lot more tempting as a target for me. Regards, Martijn