No, sorry. Been swamped with other stuff and haven't had the time to make it pretty.
I'll see if I can find the time to pull it together and just dump it here unedited. At least it'll be something. - Jeff On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Avi Berkovich <avibe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Is there any progress on that list? > > It will help quite a bit if can you provide it. > > > > On 16/03/2012 19:28, cold_fus...@fastmail.fm wrote: >> >> Jeff, thank you very much for your feedback. >> >> I'm eager to see that list you mentioned, hopefully with testimonials. >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012, at 08:44 AM, Jeff Hardy wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:29 AM, <cold_fus...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >>>> >>>> I wasn't aware that MS bailed on the Irons (back at 2010) until a few >>>> days ago, this will probably hurt my arguments, let alone other chatter >>>> on the web saying that nobody uses these languages aside from the former >>>> teams at MS. >>> >>> That's not true; I have a decent list of other users that I really >>> need to publish soon. Figure ~20 companies, a few open source >>> projects, etc. >>> >>>> For now, the most compelling argument to use IPy over C# is convenience >>>> (not having to compile and distribute), although at the cost of few >>>> other people learning to use it. >>> >>> More people learning Python is never bad a thing, in my books :) >>> >>>> I know static compilation is over rated, but some think it’s very >>>> important, sadly I don’t remember being able to run >>>> PyChecker/PyLint/PyFlakes with IronPython, and since it’s going be using >>>> a lot of .net libraries I don’t see how I can use CPython to run those. >>> >>> The Python static analysis tools should still give you decent >>> information, even when run under CPYthon - PyFlakes, at least, >>> shouldn't be tripped up by IronPython-specific code. Heck, if you >>> reimplemented the .NET BCL in Python, any IronPython code should just >>> work on CPython as well. >>> >>> I'm not familiar with what pylint and pychecker do, so I can't comment on >>> them. >>> >>>> Lastly, I’m concerned about future support, again for what I’ve managed >>>> to gather in the last few days. >>> >>> That's definitely an issue, but it's true of any open-source project >>> run entirely by volunteers. All I can say is I don't plan on going >>> anywhere for a while. >>> >>>> Can anyone please enlighten me on any of my points? >>> >>> Hopefully that helps a little. Sorry for taking so long to get back to >>> you; your message slipped by when it first came in. >>> >>> - Jeff >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironpython-users mailing list > Ironpython-users@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users _______________________________________________ Ironpython-users mailing list Ironpython-users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users
