On 1/7/08, Bryan Sant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 10:02 PM, Jonathan Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Summary: Short-term we need Java skill. Long term we are interested > > in a diverse skill set. (Even short term, I'm subversively using > > Jython. But officially it is a Java project. Shh.) > > How do you like Jython?
Better than Java. :) I'm using Jython to provide a web front end to a Lucene index. We're deploying on HP-UX on Itanium (yeah, I know, but they didn't ask my opinion) so CPython + PyLucene is a poor option since PyLucene is such a bitch to build. (I suspect that like most nontrivial OSS it [that is, jcc, the primary pylucene dependency] will only build with gcc. But since I don't even have the HP C++ compiler to test with, and it takes forever to get our sysadmins to install anything, I can't say for sure.) The main downside is that 2.2 compatibility only gets you so far these days in the Python world. If you're developing something from scratch, or you mainly want to leverage Java code instead of Python, Jython is an excellent fit. If you want to use CPython libraries or frameworks then you will probably have to do some backporting. Hanging out on #jython there is a lot of progress being made on this front (django support is apparently mostly done in a branch) but I don't really want to be a beta tester here. I briefly considered JRuby instead since it can apparently run the latest Rails just fine, but IMO Rails loses a lot of its value since I'm mainly interested in interacting with Lucene rather than a database via ActiveRecord. So I ended up spending an hour working around CPython-isms in Spyce and going with that. Spyce has remained 2.2-compatible, so running it with the stable Jython was relatively easy. -Jonathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
