[Ironpython-users] IronPython, Daily Digest 3/27/2014

2014-03-28 Thread CodePlex
Hi ironpython, Here's your Daily Digest of new issues for project "IronPython". In today's digest:ISSUES 1. [New comment] Add support for RIPEMD160 to hashlib -- ISSUES 1. [New comment] Add support for RIPEMD160 to hashlib http://ironpython.codeplex

[Ironpython-users] A question on the future of ironpython

2014-03-28 Thread touficmc
Hello there. My name is Toufic, and I am a python and c# programmer. I use python a lot in my finance job as much as c#. When it comes to GUI building c# makes is easy in the GUI design but in my humble opinion I find it extremely easy to manipulate data with Python. The leverage of using lists

Re: [Ironpython-users] A question on the future of ironpython

2014-03-28 Thread Vernon D. Cole
In answer to the second question: Microsoft dropped its funding of IronPython in 2010. Since that time it has been maintained and enhanced by a corps of volunteers as a true open source project. No more worries about whether the Microsoft lawyers would complain about modification to the Python St

Re: [Ironpython-users] A question on the future of ironpython

2014-03-28 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, In answer to the first question: As far as I know, Python Tools for Visual Studio has a WPF GUI Designer which works with IronPython. https://pytools.codeplex.com/ SharpDevelop 4.4 has a Windows Forms Designer with Support for IronPython (which seems to generate C# code under the hood, so

Re: [Ironpython-users] A question on the future of ironpython

2014-03-28 Thread Jeff Hardy
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:47 AM, wrote: > 1- designing a GUI programmatically (talking here about winforms) is time > consuming so why there is no graphical GUI designer like in a c# projects > where you can drag and drop widgets on your winform? It should be an open > source project and pleas