[Zope3-Users] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 3 on Jython - Google Summer of Code

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 28, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>  ...
>
> > +1 - I already mentioned this option as well. Note that existing Zope
>  > 3 applications can at least be made to run if you just let the
>  > proxying code do nothing and return the object itself, I imagine.
>  > They'll run insecurity, but they should run.
>
>  I'd rather not have something like this checked in anywhere.  I'd
>  rather make it easier and more explicit to control whether proxies are
>  used.

Sure, agreed that would be better.

>  > Note that
>  > zope.interface was already ported at least some distance by the
>  > twisted people at Pycon.
>
>  Interesting.  Did anything get checked in to the z.o repo?

This I don't know about. Georgy should ask the Jython people, who seem
to know more. :)

>  > I could therefore *imagine* focusing on some
>  > speedup work by rewriting bits of code to Java, but I agree with you
>  > that the primary, initial goal should be to get things to work, and
>  > that performance work should be secondary. So perhaps this can be in
>  > an 'optional-if-there-is-time-left' section, and going in with the
>  > assumption that time will not be left.
>
>  In particular, I'd prefer to see more of the stack get ported over
>  speedups.

Yes, I think that's a good goal for the project for the forseeable
(this summer) future. I don't know how hard it is to port most of the
Python stack, but we will be finding out.

Georgy, a report on the things you run into while porting this stuff
over would also be *very* useful, so I suggest you make the production
of such a report part of your plan. Of course also needed is a list of
the packages you ported over, and perhaps the packages you didn't
manage to because of particular issues.

Regards,

Martijn