"Paul Rubin" <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Roger Binns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That will rule out all the gui frameworks, SSL, cryptography >> and numerous other packages. Have a look at what happened to >> Prothon. > > I think it would be enough to retarget SWIG.
That is also a lot of work, and a lot of toolkits that use Swig for Python bindings are very strongly tied to the Swig-Python internals. For example I doubt there are many where you could tell Swig to output Java and it would just work. (I know none of mine would work, nor would wxPython). >> What ultimately killed it was the problem of having a decent >> library. > > Nah, I think people just lost interest. Otherwise, why isn't Jython > dead? Err, you proved my point! Prothon was fine at the VM level. The author couldn't figure out how to get a decent sized "standard" library, and ultimately ended up abandoning his VM for .Net since that gets you a large standard library. Jython also gets a large standard library from the Java ones. Roger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
