Thursday, March 25, 2010

Introducing nightly builds and ubuntu PPA

Hello.

We're pleased to announce two things that we were constantly asked for: Nightly builds and Ubuntu PPA for 1.2 release made by Bartosz Skowron. There are no nightly build ubuntu packages (yet).

Nightly builds are what they are - pure pypy executables with JIT compiled in (for linux only now). They require either a pypy checkout or a release download. The main difference is that by default display more debugging information than release builds and that they contain recent bugfixes and improvements of course :-)

Cheers
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9 comments:

  1. ben.b.boyerMarch 25, 2010 at 6:08 PM

    great!

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  2. nekto0nMarch 26, 2010 at 9:39 AM

    Niiice =) Using PyPy becomes easier.
    Could please disable jit on amd64 or perhaps build 32-bit deb for amd64 machines?

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  3. Maciej FijalkowskiMarch 26, 2010 at 5:15 PM

    @nek0ton building 32bit JIT for 64bit is hard since you need 32bit libraries. We just don't build nightly 64bit (nor release contained it).

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  4. nekto0nMarch 26, 2010 at 5:24 PM

    @fijal Why so? 32bit libraries are available on ubuntu (with ia32 suffix), kernel is build with 32bit support option. Don't see any problem here.
    I understand why not to build 64bit release - JIT is the goal.
    P.S. Maybe unavailable amd64 build would force someone to digg and fix that issue? =) Are there any guides available to do it?

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  5. Maciej FijalkowskiMarch 26, 2010 at 9:29 PM

    the reason is precisely what you described - you need custom libraries linked with special suffix or place which is probably distribution dependent.

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  6. UnknownMarch 31, 2010 at 1:46 PM

    What would it take to make a 64 bit native everything (amd64)?

    Btw. I noticed the supported modules list seems to be incomplete at http://pypy.org/compat.html
    At least os, subprocess seem to be there even if not listed, probably more?

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  7. Maciej FijalkowskiMarch 31, 2010 at 5:44 PM

    @harri.

    The general answer is that both subprocess and os are written in Python (and not C), so we don't list them. However I wonder how we can list things not to confuse people who don't know that. Any ideas (listing all possible modules is a bit too much).

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  8. UnknownApril 7, 2010 at 3:39 PM

    If the supported modules is over 50% of all, how about just listing modules that still require work? I suspect many people are unaware that PyPy is getting feature complete, usable for real work.

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  9. UnknownJuly 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM

    Any reason the PPA doesn't have a newer 1.5 build for natty?

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