[pypy-commit] pypy default: 2.1 beta announcement

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Author: David Schneider <david.schneider at picle.org>
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Changeset: r65284:9d2af55df726
Date: 2013-07-09 14:00 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/9d2af55df726/

Log:	2.1 beta announcement

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+===============
+PyPy 2.1 beta 1
+===============
+
+We're pleased to announce the first beta of the upcomming 2.1 release of PyPy.
+This beta contains many bugfixes and improvements, numerous improvements to the
+numpy in pypy effort. The main feature being that the ARM processor support is
+not longer considered alpha level. We would like to thank the `Raspberry Pi
+Foundation`_ for supporting the work to finish PyPy's ARM support.
+
+You can download the PyPy 2.0 beta 1 release here:
+
+    http://pypy.org/download.html 
+
+.. _`Raspberry Pi Foundation`: http://www.raspberrypi.org
+
+Highlights
+==========
+
+* Bugfixes to the ARM JIT backend, so that ARM is now an officially
+  supported processor architecture.
+
+* Various numpy improvements.
+
+* Bugfixes to cffi and ctypes.
+
+* Bugfixes to the stacklet support
+
+* Improved logging performance
+
+What is PyPy?
+=============
+
+PyPy is a very compliant Python interpreter, almost a drop-in replacement for
+CPython 2.7.3. It's fast due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler.
+
+This release supports x86 machines running Linux 32/64, Mac OS X 64 or Windows
+32. Also this release supports ARM machines running Linux 32bit - anything with
+``ARMv6`` (like the Raspberry Pi) or ``ARMv7`` (like Beagleboard,
+Chromebook, Cubieboard, etc.) that supports ``VFPv3`` should work. Both
+hard-float ``armhf/gnueabihf`` and soft-float ``armel/gnueabi`` builds are
+provided. ``armhf`` builds for Raspbian are created using the Raspberry Pi
+`custom cross-compilation toolchain <https://github.com/raspberrypi>`_
+based on ``gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf`` and should work on ``ARMv6`` and
+``ARMv7`` devices running Debian or Raspbian. ``armel`` builds are built
+using the ``gcc-arm-linux-gnuebi`` toolchain provided by Ubuntu and
+currently target ``ARMv7``.
+
+Windows 64 work is still stalling, we would welcome a volunteer
+to handle that.
+
+How to use PyPy?
+================
+
+We suggest using PyPy from a `virtualenv`_. Once you have a virtualenv
+installed, you can follow instructions from `pypy documentation`_ on how
+to proceed. This document also covers other `installation schemes`_.
+
+.. _`pypy documentation`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/getting-started.html#installing-using-virtualenv
+.. _`virtualenv`: http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/
+.. _`installation schemes`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/getting-started.html#installing-pypy
+.. _`PyPy and pip`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/getting-started.html#installing-pypy
+
+
+Cheers,
+the PyPy team