Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
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Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
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Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#2Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained".
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#3wow, that would be a big shame. I hope many of the useful learnings are already ported to CPython.
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#4If anyone else is also barely aware and confused by the similar names, PyPI is the Python Package Index, which is up and maintained. PyPy is "A fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python." which doesn't have enough devs to release a version for 3.12[0].
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#5Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained".
What euphemism do you prefer then...
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#6wow, that would be a big shame. I hope many of the useful learnings are already ported to CPython.
Almost none of it will have been ported to CPython, as it's a completely different approach.
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#7Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained".
For context, they have 2 to 4 commits per month since October [1]. The last release was July 2025 [2].
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#8Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained".
What euphemism do you prefer then...
Undermaintained might be more suited since it does have life but doesn't appear commercially healthy nor apparently relevant to other communities.
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#9If anyone else is also barely aware and confused by the similar names, PyPI is the Python Package Index, which is up and maintained. PyPy is "A fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python." which doesn't have enough devs to release a version for 3.12[0]. [0]: https://github.com/orgs/pypy/discussions/5145
Thanks. I knew this already but keep forgetting and getting confused
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#10If anyone else is also barely aware and confused by the similar names, PyPI is the Python Package Index, which is up and maintained. PyPy is "A fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python." which doesn't have enough devs to release a version for 3.12[0]. [0]: https://github.com/orgs/pypy/discussions/5145
Thanks, I also saw this as PyPI and was confused, lol