On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Jeff Hardy <jdha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dave Fugate <dfug...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> That said, there is something extremely useful the community can do for >> IronPython that our team simply cannot: get 3rd party Python applications >> such as Django, pywin32, NumPy, etc running under IronPython. This could >> mean adapting something like adodbapi.py to utilize IronPython APIs similar >> to what Vernon Cole did, or re-implementing NumPy's C-based modules in C#. >> While it's quite difficult (impossible?) for anyone on our team to submit >> changes supporting IronPython back to other OSS projects, the rest of the >> IronPython Community happily doesn't have this limitation. > Dave: My condolences on having to put up with the lawyers. I have to sleep with one, but at least she doesn't tell me who I can contribute code to. ;-) -- VC
> The problem with this approach is that I don't really want to clutter > up e.g. Django with workarounds for IP bugs that are actually > incompatibilities with CPython - they should and will get fixed in IP > at some point. If it's a legitimate platform difference, or an invalid > assumption by Django, then it can be fixed there - but I've found very > few of those relative to bugs in IP itself. That's true. There is still one outstanding bug in adodbapi on iron which I hope will eventually be fixed in IPy. (see Work Item # 18222 -- August 2008) The workaround was just too large to use and would still have left the IPy COM implementation with a bug. When the COM bug gets fixed that last test failure will go away. There are other places where "if IronPython:" made sense and was used. (I also included simple workarounds for bugs like #18223.) -- VC > Also, would it possible for you guys to revisit your commit messages? > I would at least like to see a note in the CP commit messages when a > particular CP issue has been fixed. + 1. Maybe my bug has already been fixed and I don't know. -- VC > >> >> If anyone wants to contribute in this manner, please just give us a heads up >> so we can obtain permission to add tests for the 3rd party app(s) to our >> checkin system. Also, if there's enough interest in this I can setup a wiki >> page on CodePlex to keep track of whose working on what... +1 on the wiki page. > > Now this is interesting! Last time I checked, Django's test suite was > nowhere near passing - would the full test suite have to pass before > you'd include it? In other words, how good do we have to get? > I really appreciate the work you guys are doing here. It can't be easy > swimming against the tide all the time! > > - Jeff Amen! -- VC _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
