This is a little investigation I did for Trac on IronPython. The primary link of interest is: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/667
Okay, initially I intended to write a good introduction on involved issues to be readable by outsiders, but I give up. I paste what I wrote on Trac ticket. Food for thoughts. * * * Re: jonas IronPython supports os and StringIO module now. Re: mgood As you pointed out, ClearSilver is a C extension and can't be made to run on IronPython. I think getting Genshi run would be possible though. See below. For SVN access, I am willing to write a VC plugin using .NET subversion libraries like NSvn. For a database library, I have DB-API implementation backed by ADO.NET and a compatibility module for sqlite ready. I also have md5 module using System.Security.Cryptograpy ready. For compiler package, the package itself is pure-Python, the problem lies on parser module. PyPy project wrote a pure-Python implementation of parser module, which should run just fine on IronPython: http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist/pypy/interpreter/pyparser/ Another possibility is new _ast interface in Python 2.5. (See http://genshi.edgewall.org/changeset/31) Unlike old parser interface, it looks very feasible for IronPython to implement this interface. Bytecode generation is problematic. Naturally IronPython can't support new.code called with CPython bytecode. I am thinking about using unparse to turn that to Python source and then exec to get a code object: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/p3yk/Demo/parser/unparse.py Lots of rough ideas. -- Seo Sanghyeon _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
