[Stackless] stackless 2.8

[Werner Thie]

On 1/6/14 3:51 PM, Christian Tismer wrote:
> On 07.01.14 02:23, Richard Tew wrote:
>> No, I just want to be clear on what everyone expects to get out of it.
>>   For me, as I understand it, it's 2.x with whatever whomever wishes to
>> backport from 3.x, included.  Therefore, to some degree it would also
>> serve (with no extra work than any of us plans) as an intermediate
>> point that lessens effort in migrating to 3.x by being somewhere in
>> between.
>>
>> I think that renaming the executable is what you should do.  People
>> can alias to 'python' as they please.
>
> Very much agreed!
> That is what I'm going to do consequently,
> and quite probably this is the best to do in the future, too!
>
> But let us try it with 2.8 first. If people like what they get, then we
> should
> consider to extend the renaming.
>
> all the best -- Chris
>

Hi

if stackless 2.8 serves as a melting pot for new ideas and 
implementations and aggregates what's out there, it's a win for me.

I like the idea of not having to write my own process management system 
to reap the benefits of multicore architectures with ease and I also 
like to have the light weight multiprocessing with tasklets and 
channels, which was way back then what fascinated me about massive MP in 
simulations done with OCCAM and the transputer architecture from INMOS.

All in all, I like stackless and where its going a lot and it feels good 
to see that there is a future for the 2.x series, which not only holds 
grunt work porting old stuff forward to three series pythons, not 
leaving any time to implement new ideas and concepts.

Werner