7 Jul 19:06
GSoC Weekly Report (#6): Django on Jython
From: Leo Soto M. <leo.soto <at> gmail.com>
Subject: GSoC Weekly Report (#6): Django on Jython
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.jython.devel
Date: 2008-07-07 17:08:41 GMT
Subject: GSoC Weekly Report (#6): Django on Jython
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.jython.devel
Date: 2008-07-07 17:08:41 GMT
Hi again! Here is my report of what was done on the past week: - Benchmarked and then discarded my "findattr/getattr" change on Jython, after discovering that I was introducing a huge performance regression on failed lookups. - I will try again soon with the approach suggested by Samuele. - Improved the Django "get_db_prep_* refactor" patch <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/7560> following the feedback I got from Django devs. - Switched to the Jython "asm" branch, where all the jython-2.5 work is being done - Re-tested and commited the majority of Jython improvements resulted from my Django on Jython work so far. Basically, many compatibility issues are resolved, notabily __cmp__ on derived types and string formatting. - Also helped with enabling utf-8 source encoding, and some parser issues with files which doesn't end on a newline character. - Current results on the Django test suite: <http://dojstatus.leosoto.com/testcollector/48> Also now that I'm commiting to the Jython subversion repository, I'm changing my workflow a bit. My "jython.doj" hg repository is being deprecated in favor of a simpler patch repository. For consistency, I'm doing the same for the(Continue reading)
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