Re: [Ironpython-users] Splitting up the IronPython repo

2014-01-20 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Jeff, Good work, I'm all in favour of it. Splitting DLR, IronPython and IronRuby into different projects is a good thing. Just some unordered thoughts: The python standard library could be fetched by the build script directly from the cPython servers (maybe with a few local patches applied

[Ironpython-users] Splitting up the IronPython repo

2014-01-20 Thread Jeff Hardy
One of the big issues with working on IronPython is the size of the git repository (specifically https://github.com/IronLanguages/main) - git does not like really big repos, especially on Windows. Part of the problem is that the repository includes: * The DLR * IronPython * IronRuby * Two copies o

Re: [Ironpython-users] porting things to ironpython

2014-01-20 Thread Jeff Hardy
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Pawel Jasinski wrote: > hi, > > I have been playing with some cpython packages and tried to get them > to work under ironpython. > Ironpython, similar to jython, is a hybrid with true unicode strings > (as it is defined in 3.x) and arguments and returned values of