[Stackless] Re: Stackless Python is DEAD!

Jacob Gorm Hansen jg at ioi.dk
Sat Jan 19 14:46:16 CET 2002


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:43:11PM -0800, Donn Cave wrote:
> Quoth Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com>:
> ...
> | What do you mean by acceptable?
> | The 95 percent of users who get their solution
> | in time will for sure accept it. Who else is relevant?
> 
> I don't know if anyone is particularly relevant.  By acceptable,
> I mean that when programmers decide whether to pursue designs
> that depend on Stackless features, you're asking them to accept a
> severe loss of portability.  Many of them may find that unimportant,
> because as you say the majority platforms will be OK for now.  But
> I can't believe it's going to be generally acceptable.  Maybe I just
> don't want to believe it, because I think that attitude really sucks.
> Whatever, we'll see.

I think it sound interesting, don't see why the way C handles the stack must
limit what other programs (especially languages) can do. My guess is porting
these changes is to other compilers and OSes is far from imposssible. I would
love however, if Christian were to adopt a more unixy development environment,
using standard patches and a public CVS repo instead of father xmas style
grand releases, but maybe that will come, as all good things come to those who
wait.

Best,
Jacob
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