[Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler) (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Mon May 17 23:28:22 CEST 2010

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

On 5/17/2010 2:59 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > Yes, it would. As soon as I have working 3.x versions of BeautifulSoup, > PIL, ReportLab, JCC, pylucene, pyglet, nltk, email, epydoc, feedparser, > dictclient, docutils, hachoir, mutagen, medusa, python-dateutil, and > vobject, I'll let you know. :-) > >> There /has/ been momentum in fixing it. In py3k. > > Yes, I specifically meant in the 2.x branch. I'm guessing I'll have to > stay on 2.x for at least 5 more years, due to the other package > dependencies.

I suspect it will be sooner than that, especially if users like you ask/beg/plead with the maintainers of libraries like those you listed to make them work with 3.2.

Oh, that's the way I like to spend my day (and, as you can tell from this conversation, I'm really good at it :-). Though I will of course do that.

But some of these, like JCC+pylucene, nltk, and vobject, were developed with idiosyncratic funding resources which no longer exist. Others, like pyglet, were developed for a completely different purpose, and I doubt the developers care what I want. So, realistically, I doubt it will be less than five years.

Bill

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