On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 03:56:11PM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 09:43 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
This makes it possible to start testing some of the ZTK with PyPy. There are challenges of course: certain packages, such as zope.interface, use C extensions and would need to be installed in "plain-python" mode (if available).
It is available. The setup script could, presumably, detect if it is running under PyPy and not even try building extensions.
It already does. zope.interface falls back to using its Python implementation if it's installed on a platform that doesn't support C compilation. As does zope.i18nmessageid.
Incidentally, PyPy has some source-level support for C extensions: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-cpython-extension-modules-with.ht... Marius Gedminas -- http://pov.lt/ -- Zope 3/BlueBream consulting and development