Ray wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Is Jython development dead or has it just seemed that way for over a >>year?. The jython.org website has a recent new appearance (but no new >>content) and there is some message traffic on the developer site at >>Sourceforge. However nothing has been released for over a year (i.e. >>no support for Python 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5). Is seems that IronPython may >>have a better future than Jython. >> >>I know this is a bit of a troll but I'm concerned about choosing Jython >>as the basis for a cross platform test scipt execution environment. > > >>Does anyone know if a Jython update is imminent? > > > There was a time when Jython walked like the dead and quacked like the > dead but if you dared calling it dead or asking whether it was really > dead you'd be admonished that it was open source and you should've just > gone to the repository and hack some Jython code. (Or the ever popular > response: that Jython 2.1 works <insert some nice-sounding adjective > here, e.g.: beautifully, perfectly, etc.>, so why bother asking about > 2.2 and beyond?). > > Also, thankfully, it's picking up again, thanks to Frank Wierzbicki, > et. al.--just check out the jython-dev mailing list, seems that new > bloods are coming in. AFAIK they're trying to get a release for 2.2 > ASAP, then from there go to other versions--I think there was even a > talk about jumping versions (e.g.: probably skipping 2.3 or something) > somewhere in the list... I'm not sure how it was concluded though. > Personally after 2.2 is out I think they might as well jump to 2.5 > straightaway. > > So, what is your main concern here that 2.1 doesn't address? Because if > your concern is that you're using a dead thing as your environment, > it's rising from the dead. But if your concern is that you want to use > features in Python 2.4 in Jython, might as well look for other > solutions--it'll be some time before a version that supports that comes > out. > As a PSF director I might add that the Foundation has certainly tried to encourage onward development of Jython, and would like to continue doing so: it's healthy to have an ecosystem of different implementations, and Jython represents great visibility for Python in the Java world.
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