Supporting any/all CPython plug-ins unchanged is clearly a big task -- but 
implementing zlib support shouldn't be very difficult.  That's what Mat was 
asking for...

At 11:12 AM 8/23/2006, Dino Viehland wrote
>Yep, we have an active bug on CodePlex but at this time we don't know when 
>we'll get to it.  It's a rather large and daunting task (for example, how do 
>we deal with the ref counting part of the API which involves direct access to 
>memory?).
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JoeSox
>Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:18 AM
>To: Discussion of IronPython
>Subject: Re: [IronPython] Zlib
>
>On 8/23/06, Mat Steeples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> d'oh, hadn't thought of googling for that! I gave up when just
>> googling for zlib brought back very few results.
>>
>> Are there any plans to build this in to IP? As it's something that's
>> built in to CPython?
>
>I believe I remember Dino mentioning that they don't support CPython's plugin 
>model.
>--
>Later, JoeSox
>"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make 
>sense."
>-Mark Twain


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