Hi all, I am glad to announce that IronPython 2 is now capable of running my XMPP Python library: headstock [1].
.NET has already an excellent XMPP SDK called agsXMPP [2] that is a native .NET/C# framework. However I'm a Python developers at heart and I had started quite a while ago writing my own XMPP library in Python using the most excellent Kamaelia framework (designed for concurrency). For a while IronPython had severe shortcomings that prevented it running simple Kamaelia applications. Today I was able to run a simplechat demo using a vanilla IP2 on Windows with only one single modification to the logging module (thanks Seo). To be honest I didn't expect it to go through :) The chat demo is simple enough but means more complex examples using XMPP PubSub will work as well (they are all based on the same framework). Now this isn't production ready or anything. For instance the TLS support is broken (hopefully something easy enough to fix) so you won't be able to connect to Google Talk for now. Moreover I'm not sure the code is that fast considering how I had to simulate an incremental XML parser [3] atop System.Xml (this allows for a XML stream to be parsed without requiring the full document or even fragment to be read first). This is a great news for me because it means i'll be able to move ahead with more work using IronPython 2. Thanks again, - Sylvain [1] http://trac.defuze.org/wiki/headstock#RunningthesimplechatdemoonIronPython2 [2] http://www.ag-software.de/index.php?page=agsxmpp-sdk [3] https://svn.defuze.org/oss/bridge/bridge/parser/bridge_dotnet.py -- Sylvain Hellegouarch http://www.defuze.org _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
