IronPython URLs

Today the IronPython team put a roadmap online highlighting the major new features and an approximate time frame for betas. 2.6 Release Roadmap New features CPython 2.6 compatibility Improved startup time New built-in modules that were previously missing: ctypes heapq New IronPython features: meta-class method __clrtype__ for better .NET interop support Cached subtypes Adaptive interpreter (related to improved startup time) New built-in profiler Optional sys._getframe support Tenative release plan IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1 - Mar 26, 2009 At least 50% of 2.6 tests pass that passed under 2.5. Many of the big new features implemented. IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 - End of May Mostly feature complete - all 2.6 features, abstract interpreter, cached new types, __clrtype__ , ctypes IronPython 2.6 Beta 2 - ~2 months later Primarily bug fixes on top of Beta 1. Also maybe some top small features as requested by users. IronPython 2.6 RC 1 - ~1.5 months later Build is truly a candidate for release. If no...

I've got a backlog of links to post; normal service will be resumed shortly... In the meantime here a few snippets that may be of interest. Through the ' Pyc ' compiler sample, which uses ' clr.CompileModules ' under the hood, IronPython 2 can compile Python code to binary assemblies. These assemblies can be ngen'd (pre-JITed) making imports roughly three times as fast as from a Python sourcecode file. This is great because IronPython import performance is sloooow... In the latest beta (2 beta 5) compiling packages was broken, meaning that we couldn't build and test a binary distribution of Resolver One running on IronPython 2. This problem was supposed to have been fixed in the latest codeplex source code drop , so today I tested it out. The first thing I had to do was build IronPython 2 from sources on a machine that has .NET 3.5 installed, but not Visual Studio 2008. It took me a while to find precisely the right magic command line invocation to build in ...

A collection of links to people discovering IronPython: Working the Snake Finding the 'greatest common divisor' and fibonaci using IronPython. Make Your Application Scriptable with IronPython Making .NET applications scriptable with IronPython. Tfs via IronPython Working with the 'Team Foundation Server' through the IronPython interactive interpreter. A minimal sqlplus clone in IronPython A script for interactively working with Oracle. The text is in German, but the code looks straightforward. And some news that is related to IronPython: IronPython Team has a New Boss OSI Calls for Revisions to Microsoft Permissive License Oh, and I don't think I posted a link here to my set of articles / downloads / online examples for IronPython and Silverlight: Voidspace IronPython & Silverlight Pages

IronPython RC1 has been released. http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Wiki/View.aspx?title=v1.1%20RC1%20Release%20Notes

IronPython didn't win the Jolt Awards Development Environments Section, but it did receive a Productivity award. http://www.joltawards.com/2007/;jsessionid=PKABUTN35WQWUQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN

Just in time for PyCon 2007 , Dino Viehland of the IronPython Dev Team announced the release of the first IronPython 1.1 Beta.

The latest release of Mono is available for download and the IronPython Community Edition R5 is now shipped with it. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2007/Feb-07.html

IronPython is a finalist in the Development Environments category for the 2007 Jolt awards. http://www.joltawards.com/2007/

Micahel Foord announces that he has a deal with Manning Publications to write a book on IronPython. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_01_06.shtml#e609

Seo Sanghyeon announces the fifth release of the IronPython Community Edition. This release uses IronPython 1.1 Alpha as it's base. http://groups.google.com/group/ironpy/tree/browse_frm/thread/31c8f5e7bad4c70e/d143b51337b0bc51

Fuzzyman will be doing a talk entitled "Developing with IronPython and Windows Forms" at PyCon 2007 http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2006_11_25.shtml#e561

A proof of concept using IronPython as a view engine for Castle. http://hammett.castleproject.org/?p=93

Kathleen Richards writes about Microsoft and Sun are placing bets on hot dynamic languages. http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/article.aspx?editorialsid=100

Seo Sanghyeon announces the fourth release of the IronPython Community edition. http://groups.google.com/group/ironpy/browse_frm/thread/e752cc34a95c753e/9ccefa3efbb595d4#9ccefa3efbb595d4

Jörgen Stenarson announces the first release of his pyreadline port for IronPython. http://groups.google.com/group/ironpy/tree/browse_frm/thread/7c2b0ddf26627a0c/7e796bbfd6287b74?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fironpy%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F7c2b0ddf26627a0c%2F7e796bbfd6287b74%3F#doc_094ade0234af5392

Seo Sangyheon announces the first release of the Python Cryptographic Toolkit for IronPython. http://groups.google.com/group/ironpy/browse_thread/thread/7c2b0ddf26627a0c/7e796bbfd6287b74#7e796bbfd6287b74

Fuzzyman has a proposal for an IronPython book with Manning. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2006_11_11.shtml#e545

/n software releases RSSBus Beta 3, adding a plug-in architecture to support scripting in other languages, once of which is IronPython. http://www.rssbus.com/blog/

eWeek.com article discusses David Ebbo's session at the DevConnection conference. An interesting quote from the article: "In addition, Ebbo said his team has delivered a prototype of a "secret project" called Simplified Data Scenarios where developers can "easily build data-bound applications from scratch" starting only with a database. The prototype enables users to customize applications declaratively using ASP.NET or programmatically using IronPython, Ebbo said." http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2053498,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

IronPython is mentioned in "Joint letter to the Open Source Community", from Novell and Microsoft, as an example of community project from Microsoft. http://www.novell.com/linux /microsoft/openletter.html