As with all feature requests, please add it to CodePlex. :)

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Keith J. Farmer <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Since there's an MSI now, could we hope for updates/new-major-versions
> via Windows Update?  Like online banking, I've come to rely on things
> updating themselves, rather than having to keep track of various support
> download sites.  Not to be exclusive – I would expect downloads at CodePlex
> to remain available -- but for the ease of installation and maintainance,
> it's hard to beat built-in, unified updaters.
>
>
>
> If side-by-side versioning is required, I could see a current-version
> environment variable that could be added to the path.
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Dave Fugate
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:19 PM
> *To:* Discussion of IronPython
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [IronPython] Announcing IronPython 2.0
>
>
>
> Hello Python Community,
>
>
>
> The IronPython and Dynamic Language Runtime teams are proud to announce the
> release of IronPython 2.0 final.  IronPython 2.0 is the culmination of
> nearly two years worth of work resulting in a CPython 2.5 compatible release
> on .NET 2.0 SP1.  By far, the biggest change to 2.0 is that our 1.1 codebase
> was refactored to run on top of the Dynamic Language 
> Runtime<http://www.codeplex.com/dlr>.
> With this we automatically get improvements in many feature areas such as
> better .NET interop support and hosting Python from managed code.  There
> have been many other major improvements as well.  The most notable are:
>
> ·         An MSI installer for Windows platforms which includes parts of
> the CPython 2.5 standard library
>
> ·         IronPython assemblies targeting Silverlight and tools such as
> Chiron to improve the Silverlight dynamic development experience
>
> ·         The addition of more C-based standard modules such as *cmath*and
> *_winreg*
>
> ·         Significant improvements in importing compatibility and features
>
> ·         Distribution of IronPython under the Microsoft Public License
> which has been approved by OSI
>
> ·         Performance improvements.  On that note, a new Wiki page has
> been created for IronPython performance reports - see
> http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Wiki/View.aspx?title=IronPython%20Performance
>
> ·         Over 500 bugs have been closed in 2.0.  453 of these were
> reported on CodePlex
>
> ·         Support for precompilation of Python source files into a single
> dll
>
>
>
> This seems like an opportune time to remind everyone that we fix bugs based
> on the number of votes they have on CodePlex.  As we're planning on
> releasing IronPython 2.0.1 fairly soon, please vote for your favorite bugs
> at http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/AdvancedList.aspx to help
> ensure they get fixed in time for the next release.
>
>
>
> We'd like to extend our gratitude to everyone in the IronPython community
> who reported bugs thereby making this a better release:  milind, romank,
> chadaustin, sjmachin, davidfraser, TimothyFitz, drewid, sanxiyn,
> bashmohandes, pobrien, perhaps, haypo, Undebtedly, ayarrow, tscottw_cp,
> rope, arman0, eshaish, nivaldo, fuzzyman, CurtHagenlocher, Eloff, brucec,
> py_sunil, jacobg23, mziller, beaugunderson, gbraad, Oceanborn, tarlano,
> jbevain, glchapman, anthonybaxter, jdhardy, jjlee, haibo, doubleyewdee,
> jackeyoo, whit537, sdahlbac, PeteHufnagel, jtenney, nriley, junfeng,
> grizlupo, rridge, lewisle, JoelBondurant, johnplatt, lthompson, debackerl,
> googen, tscottw, VoteFw, leppie, Qvin, heyssion2, CriGoT, baxeno, sbergman,
> Laurion, luntain, oldman, christmas, 05031972, kevgu, wilberforce,
> Korbinian, lclj, sorokerr, Eriol, tatwright, ais, TraumaPony, pelikhan,
> asafk, felixpollan, srid, atifaziz, vernondcole, fwereade, zpy, yanne,
> facorreia, Daneel, zvikag, psykotic, Cavingdeep, BEaton, sborde, orbital56,
> fbourgeois, antont, krosavcheg, ktc1, awilkins, ben2004uk, paulfelix, axl,
> JeffreySax, Lawouach, and KKI.
>
>
>
> You can download IronPython 2.0 at:
> http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=8365
>
>
>
> The IronPython Team
>
>
>
>
>
> BTW
>
> Updates to the IronPython 1.0 samples will be released shortly.  Stay tuned
> to the IronPython mailing list for details.
>
>
>
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