PyPy 2.0 released

[Reini Urban]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:49:17PM -0700, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> The PyPy developers have done a tremendous amount of work and now PyPy
>> 2.0 is compatible with Python 2.7:
>>
>> http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/pypy-20-einstein-sandwich.html
>
> They've made two bugfix releases since that one.
>
> http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/pypy-201-bohr-smrrebrd.html
> http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/pypy-202-fermi-panini.html
>
> I don't remember them making bug fix releases before.
>
>
> I tried to build PyPy on my laptop from macports. I just about stopped it
> before it crashed the machine after filling the boot partition with swapfiles.
> (Managed to kill it with Activity Monitor - nothing else was responsive)
> I'm not sure how much it needs to build, but it wasn't very happy with just 4G
> of RAM and a similar amount of swap.

pypy @2.0.2 (lang, python, devel)
$ port location pypy
/opt/local/var/macports/software/pypy/pypy-2.0.2_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2

Looks like a binary install to me now.

> On Linux I installed it as a binary package. This seems to be the way to go
> :-)

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