On 25 March 2011 00:43, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ben, welcome to Parrot! It's really good to hear from you, and > it's awesome that you're looking to do a GSoC project with Parrot. > > By way of fair warning, there are several other students who have also > expressed interest in developing a Python 3 compiler, in whole or in > part. Building a compiler is always a pretty big project, although I > don't know if there is any reasonable way we can split the work up > three ways.
I am one of the other students interested in doing Python2/3. I may be convinced to bugger off and do something else, but not easily. > Maybe we should hold a little mini-meeting with all the students > interested in working on Python, and see if we can figure out a way to > spread out the work. Certainly, a second meeting would be useful. Perhaps I should write up on the wiki the results of the last meeting. > Are you interested in any other projects? Are you interested in > working on something similar, such as a Python 2 compiler instead? Python2 and Python3 compilers would still share a lot of code, so I'm not sure two separate projects would be beneficial. I think GSoC policy frowns upon depending projects. > Getting a working Python compiler as part of the Parrot ecosystem is a > big priority for us, and it seems like it's a popular project idea > among potential students as well. Assuming we have enough slots to > accept all the applications we will be sent, I want to make sure > students all have something interesting and unique to work on, and > that we aren't all getting in the way of each other. > > Again, welcome to Parrot. Drop by the #parrot IRC chatroom and let's > start talking about your plans. > > Thanks, _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
