Jeff: Can your version of zlib be slipped in to v2.7 before final now? (please please pretty please) I would really like distutils, etc to actually work. -- Vernon Cole
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Jeff Hardy <jdha...@gmail.com> wrote: > As Dino recently posted, this is the last release of IronPython by > Microsoft. As of today, myself, Michael Foord, Jimmy Schementi, and > Miguel de Icaza are the coordinators for the IronPython project (Jimmy > and Miguel will also handle IronRuby). More information can be found > from Jason Zander: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/10/21/new-components-and-contributors-for-ironpython-and-ironruby.aspx > . > Do note that Zander doesn't actually come out and *say* that Microsoft > is no longer funding IronPython/IronRuby, but that's what has > happened. Any future participation from MS employees will be on an > unofficial, spare-time basis. > > All that said, I hope this isn't the end of IronPython. There's a good > community here, and I think we can do just as good a job as Microsoft > did. You can now contribute patches to IronPython, but that means you > will have to if you want the it to flourish. A good Open Source > community requires a core of regular contributors, but also requires a > mass of occasional ones that are just scratching their particular > itches. > > From here, my goal is to get IronPython 2.7 final out the door in a > timely manner. Let's leave discussions about things like source > control or external libraries aside for a bit and get a solid release > -- then we can start those discussions. I fear that starting a major > overhaul will kill any momentum we have and cause the 2.7 release to > be unacceptably delayed. > > I wouldn't have signed up to do this if I thought IronPython didn't > have a future. > > - Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com >
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