[pypy-dev] Bringing Cython and PyPy closer together

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sat Feb 18 14:28:40 CET 2012


Martijn Faassen, 18.02.2012 14:11:
> For some insight of why people want would lxml, there's an interesting
> discussion on google app engine's bug tracker about it.
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=18
> 
> This type of discussion is instructive as PyPy's barriers to porting C
> extensions, while not "just wait for google" as the google app engine
> case, are still somewhat similar. In the end google finally ended up
> supporting numpy, lxml and a few other modules.

Whoopsa! I totally wasn't aware that they actually did something about that
seriously long-standing feature request. That's cool.

Stefan



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