Bug 232513 – sys-apps/portage - Scope out possibilty of port to TinyPY

• Status: RESOLVED REMIND
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description jonathan williams 2008-07-20 19:45:37 UTC]

Is it possible to port portage to TinyPY, So that Portage Is Able TO Use The Smallest Completest Tiny Python Interpreter?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-07-20 20:46:49 UTC]

I don't see why not. Let's see if anyone is interested or what the requirements for a Python implementation would be to run sys-apps/portage.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2008-07-20 23:08:50 UTC]

I'm not familiar with TinyPY so I have to wonder about a few things:

* Does it support all the features that portage demands?

* Would this require a forked codebase or not?

Pretty soon we're going to support py3k and the plan is to install 2 versions of portage sources simultaneously. The py3k version can simply be generated from the python-2.x version, so we won't have to fork the codebase (at least not for initial py3k support).

[Comment 3 jonathan williams 2008-07-21 00:39:57 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm not familiar with TinyPY so I have to wonder about a few things:
> 
> * Does it support all the features that portage demands?
> 
> * Would this require a forked codebase or not?
> 
> Pretty soon we're going to support py3k and the plan is to install 2 versions
> of portage sources simultaneously. The py3k version can simply be generated
> from the python-2.x version, so we won't have to fork the codebase (at least
> not for initial py3k support).
> 

go to tinypy.org

[Comment 4 jonathan williams 2008-07-21 00:40:44 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't see why not. Let's see if anyone is interested or what the requirements
> for a Python implementation would be to run sys-apps/portage.
> 

I For One Will Help I Know Some Python...

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2008-07-21 01:52:52 UTC]

Sure I can go to tinypy.org and do some research but honestly I'm very busy and it would very helpful if you would study the portage codebase a bit and let me know what types of changes will be needed in order to support TinyPY.

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2008-07-21 05:29:13 UTC]

Created attachment 160976 [details]
ROADMAP.txt for TinyPY

It doesn't seem mature enough to really take seriously at this point. Maybe if they implement some more modules then it might be worth another look.

[Comment 7 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2008-07-21 10:34:21 UTC]

Yeah, looks like it lacks pretty much the complete standard library, and I haven't seen any mention of IO functionality either. Looks more like a toy project so far than a serious alternative.