← Back to context Comment by electroglyph 15 days ago much respect to the PyPy contributors, but it seems like a pretty fair assessment 9 comments electroglyph Reply swiftcoder 15 days ago 9 months since the last major release definitely feels like a short time in which to declare time-of-death on an open source project LtWorf 15 days ago But if you set up dependabot and automerge some crap every couple of days your project will be very active!Meanwhile my projects got marked as abandoned because those scanners are unaware of codeberg being a thing. tempay 15 days ago It’s been a lot longer than that. There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came. That said, the PyPy devs were always a pleasure to work with. masklinn 15 days ago > It’s been a lot longer than that.pypy 7.3.20, officially supporting python 3.11, was released in july 2025: https://pypy.org/posts/2025/07/pypy-v7320-release.htmlWe're in March 2026. That's 9 months, which is exactly what GP stated.> There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came.How is that in any way relevant to the maintenance status of pypy? hobofan 15 days ago It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases. They are currently on 3.11, which was released 3.5 years ago for mainline Python. masklinn 15 days ago > It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases.Which it has always been, especially since Python 3, as anyone who's followed the pypy project in the last decade years is well aware. 3 replies →
swiftcoder 15 days ago 9 months since the last major release definitely feels like a short time in which to declare time-of-death on an open source project LtWorf 15 days ago But if you set up dependabot and automerge some crap every couple of days your project will be very active!Meanwhile my projects got marked as abandoned because those scanners are unaware of codeberg being a thing. tempay 15 days ago It’s been a lot longer than that. There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came. That said, the PyPy devs were always a pleasure to work with. masklinn 15 days ago > It’s been a lot longer than that.pypy 7.3.20, officially supporting python 3.11, was released in july 2025: https://pypy.org/posts/2025/07/pypy-v7320-release.htmlWe're in March 2026. That's 9 months, which is exactly what GP stated.> There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came.How is that in any way relevant to the maintenance status of pypy? hobofan 15 days ago It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases. They are currently on 3.11, which was released 3.5 years ago for mainline Python. masklinn 15 days ago > It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases.Which it has always been, especially since Python 3, as anyone who's followed the pypy project in the last decade years is well aware. 3 replies →
LtWorf 15 days ago But if you set up dependabot and automerge some crap every couple of days your project will be very active!Meanwhile my projects got marked as abandoned because those scanners are unaware of codeberg being a thing.
tempay 15 days ago It’s been a lot longer than that. There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came. That said, the PyPy devs were always a pleasure to work with. masklinn 15 days ago > It’s been a lot longer than that.pypy 7.3.20, officially supporting python 3.11, was released in july 2025: https://pypy.org/posts/2025/07/pypy-v7320-release.htmlWe're in March 2026. That's 9 months, which is exactly what GP stated.> There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came.How is that in any way relevant to the maintenance status of pypy?
masklinn 15 days ago > It’s been a lot longer than that.pypy 7.3.20, officially supporting python 3.11, was released in july 2025: https://pypy.org/posts/2025/07/pypy-v7320-release.htmlWe're in March 2026. That's 9 months, which is exactly what GP stated.> There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came.How is that in any way relevant to the maintenance status of pypy?
hobofan 15 days ago It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases. They are currently on 3.11, which was released 3.5 years ago for mainline Python. masklinn 15 days ago > It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases.Which it has always been, especially since Python 3, as anyone who's followed the pypy project in the last decade years is well aware. 3 replies →
masklinn 15 days ago > It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases.Which it has always been, especially since Python 3, as anyone who's followed the pypy project in the last decade years is well aware. 3 replies →
9 months since the last major release definitely feels like a short time in which to declare time-of-death on an open source project
But if you set up dependabot and automerge some crap every couple of days your project will be very active!
Meanwhile my projects got marked as abandoned because those scanners are unaware of codeberg being a thing.
It’s been a lot longer than that. There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came. That said, the PyPy devs were always a pleasure to work with.
> It’s been a lot longer than that.
pypy 7.3.20, officially supporting python 3.11, was released in july 2025: https://pypy.org/posts/2025/07/pypy-v7320-release.html
We're in March 2026. That's 9 months, which is exactly what GP stated.
> There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came.
How is that in any way relevant to the maintenance status of pypy?
It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases. They are currently on 3.11, which was released 3.5 years ago for mainline Python.
> It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases.
Which it has always been, especially since Python 3, as anyone who's followed the pypy project in the last decade years is well aware.
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