Comment 4 for bug 685177

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

Discussion on #python-dev follows

voidspace == Michael Foord
__ap__ == Antoine Pitrou

<voidspace> barry: pretty much won't happen
<voidspace> barry: at least Armin Rigo won't do it [12:09]
<__ap__> isn't ctismer supposed to work on reviving psyco?
<voidspace> barry: and I don't know the state of Christian Tismer's help at
            the moment - but as far as I *know* no-one is funding him to do it
<__ap__> not that I'm expecting much...
<voidspace> __ap__: he *was*
<voidspace> I don't know about current status
<voidspace> I do know that psyco *doesn't* work with 2.7
<__ap__> psyco is supposed to be unmaintainable and a quick look at the source
         code suggested itw as true :)

I think therefore the best we can do is block the package for Python 2.7. I'll work up a patch for that.