Hi folks. Is anyone on the list familiar with the process of getting a Python Software Foundation grant awarded to a worthy project? And with what's generally considered "worthy"? I found https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/resolutions/ , but almost all of the grants seem to be for conferences, and other "peopley" recipients.
But ISTR hearing that PSF grants are available for porting code to Python 3. I find Shed Skin, the implicitly-static Python2 -> C++ transpiler pretty interesting. Shedskin is at https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin ISTR that shed skin can be used for entire programs, but probably where it really shines is in taking your CPython critical section and turning it into an extension module that runs at near-C++ speed with minimal tweaking. I realize microbenchmarks aren't good indicators of the performance of a large, complex software system, but still, the fact that shed skin did so well in: http://strombrg.blogspot.com/2015/05/python-compared-to-c-machine.html ...suggests to me that we don't want it to be a casualty of the move from 2.x to 3.x. On that microbenchmark at least, shed skin outperformed pypy, cython (both manifestly typed and implicitly typed) and numba, and was just slightly slower than hand-written C++. Furthermore it appears to be the most practical of the handful of Python -> C++ transpilers available, other than it still being 2.x-only. So my question is: With a suitably written grant proposal and reasonable budget, might a PSF grant be available to help the (quite busy) author of shedskin, to get it contending with 3.x syntax, 3.x semantics and 3.x extension module API? Thanks! PS: I know we could just write a grant and see how it goes, but I'm hoping to get a "yes, that's the sort of thing PSF grants are for" before we put the time into writing the grant proposal. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
