I am using this as a renewal of my request/suggestion that we revisit the decision to not supply a .NET 2.0 version of IronPython 2.7. The current shipping version of Ubuntu has the .NET 2.0 compatible version of MONO, and cannot easily be upgraded. It cannot be used to build IronPython, so users are under the necessity to cross-compile using another OS, then copy the result to their Ubuntu systems. (This also blocks the Ubuntu maintainers from releasing a current version of IronPython -- since their rules require that release packages be built on the release platform -- so the built-in software installer loads on obsolete IPy.) I am tracking the release process for Ubuntu 11.10 in an attempt to lobby them into using a more current MONO implementation, but even given the rapid release cycle of Ubuntu, it will be next year before that release is in general use.
I know this sounds like noise to a Windows focused group. After all, how much market share of users run Ubuntu, you ask? Not many, I will admit. But the percent of Python *developers* who use Ubuntu was staggering even to me, a member of that group. In a meeting of the Utah Python Users Group a few months ago, I took an informal survey of operating systems on the laptops in the room. There were two Macs. My dual-boot Dell was the only thing with Windows on it. The rest of the room, about 18 units, was Linux -- mostly Ubuntu, which was surprising, given that this is the home of SUSE. I use Windows on two occasions: 1) when I am working on a contract where Windows is the only choice. 2) when watching movies on Netflix. The Netflix viewer is a Silverlight application, and there are versions which run on Linux -- both my smart phone and my set-top box run it on Android, which is a distribution of Debian Linux. Some dork in Hollywood refuses to license the viewer on general releases of Linux. This is frustrating to the development team, who are -- you guessed it -- Ubuntu users. Is my point getting across? -- Vernon On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Markus Schaber <m.scha...@3s-software.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > It seems that IronPython 2.7 beta 2 can only be compiled for .NET 3.5, but > will not work any more when the projects are converted to be pure .NET 2.0 > projects (using SharpSVN). > > > > Is this a known issue? > > Or is there an error on my side? > > > > Thanks, > > Markus > _______________________________________________ Ironpython-users mailing list Ironpython-users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users
