Re: [gentoo-dev] Slotting PyPy

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Sat, 2024-10-19 at 11:42 +0100, Sam James wrote:
>> I think we should do it, but I have one question: I thought (I might be
>> misremembering though) that one reason for the existing scheme was to
>> allow easy testing of pypy versions for the same Python version outside
>> of packages (e.g. test two pypy3.10 versions).
>
> Not sure what you mean by that.  You can't have two pypy3.10 versions
> installed simultaneously.  Unless you mean switching between versions
> without having to rebuild the whole interpreter -- that part will remain
> as-is, since pypy*-exe* will remain separate, though I'm not sure yet if
> I'll merge them into slots or leave completely separate.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at - but I don't think it's a big dela anyway.