I'm also going to look at porting DLR and Iron* languages to Win8 in next couple of months -- to see what's blocking it if anything. Not promising anything though :)
Tomas -----Original Message----- From: ironpython-users-bounces+tomas.matousek=microsoft....@python.org [mailto:ironpython-users-bounces+tomas.matousek=microsoft....@python.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Hardy Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:38 AM To: Keith Rome Cc: ironpython-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Ironpython-users] Metro Profile support On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Keith Rome <r...@wintellect.com> wrote: > I specifically asked during the Q&A after that session about DLR support. > With the changes to the type system, they seem to really want to push away > from IDMOP. I also got the impression that "dynamic" in C# 4.5 will not be > quite the same (perhaps Call Sites aren't going to work?). It seems to me > that if either of those changed a lot it might break quite a bit of the DLR > pieces. > > Getting a straight answer on the topic was pretty difficult though; nobody > with a blue badge wanted to discuss it. It was either still up in the air, or > they wanted to pretend it didn't exist. The official response seemed to > always fall back to "you can still do it in 'classic' non-metro desktop apps > in win8 if you need to". Hooray for non-answers! Not being able to use IronPython for Metro apps is going to hurt in the future, methinks. I'll see what I can dig up. - 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
