Hi Dave, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dave Fugate <dfug...@microsoft.com> wrote: > That said, there is something extremely useful the community can do for > IronPython that our team simply cannot: get 3rd party Python applications > such as Django, pywin32, NumPy, etc running under IronPython. This could > mean adapting something like adodbapi.py to utilize IronPython APIs similar > to what Vernon Cole did, or re-implementing NumPy's C-based modules in C#. > While it's quite difficult (impossible?) for anyone on our team to submit > changes supporting IronPython back to other OSS projects, the rest of the > IronPython Community happily doesn't have this limitation.
The problem with this approach is that I don't really want to clutter up e.g. Django with workarounds for IP bugs that are actually incompatibilities with CPython - they should and will get fixed in IP at some point. If it's a legitimate platform difference, or an invalid assumption by Django, then it can be fixed there - but I've found very few of those relative to bugs in IP itself. Also, would it possible for you guys to revisit your commit messages? I would at least like to see a note in the CP commit messages when a particular CP issue has been fixed. > > If anyone wants to contribute in this manner, please just give us a heads up > so we can obtain permission to add tests for the 3rd party app(s) to our > checkin system. Also, if there's enough interest in this I can setup a wiki > page on CodePlex to keep track of whose working on what... Now this is interesting! Last time I checked, Django's test suite was nowhere near passing - would the full test suite have to pass before you'd include it? There's some notes at http://www.ironpython.info/index.php/Application_Compatibility (and associated pages) that I haven't kept up to date. I really appreciate the work you guys are doing here. It can't be easy swimming against the tide all the time! - Jeff _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
