As the the original issue, I couldn't get the FePy XML parser to work (nor any variation), so gave up, and went with a stand-alone XMPP dll that does it all. It would be most excellent to get a expat module working.
To Vernon's point: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Vernon Cole <vernondc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking of an actual .deb file, which will put everything in > the right place, hook up menus and whatnot, like the Windows installer > does. I thought I'd try that after I finally manage to create a .NET > 2.0 build which works. [I re-built my Ubuntu box last weekend so that > I can start over. My earlier efforts resulted in killing my old Ubuntu > installation, and the openSUSE I replaced it with was an interesting > experiment, but not something I can use on a day-by-day basis.] I > want the next guy to have less trouble than me. > I was thinking of using fepy to perhaps collect lots of optional > modules -- like the db-api modules which are already there -- in one > place so they are easy to find and load. PyPi has lots of modules, > but how many of them will run on IronPython? The only one I am sure > about is the one I support myself. I think a modest core of extra > (non-standard-library) modules would be nice. I definitely do want to > have the packaging tools working, too, but I would like to not have to > go hunting and experimenting. I'd rather have all of the old FePy-like support here. I don't see a reason we need to divide Windows IronPython from Linux etc IronPython, right? > My first thought was to package everything EXCEPT the Python > installer, just use the distro installer (on Linux) or the .msi > installer, and then add the extras from fepy. But I started to change > my mind at the announcement that there would not be a .NET 2.0 release > of IPy 2.7. > Perhaps not having a 2.7 which runs on my distro is making me a bit crazy? Why can't we have a IPy 2.7 for .NET 2.0? It builds nicely, now, and should be fine as a drop-in replacement for what ubuntu (and others) were packaging before. -Doug > -- > Vernon > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jeff Hardy <jdha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Vernon Cole <vernondc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I have sent several emails to Seo asking him about the status of fepy, >>> and received no response. I think this would be a great place to >>> build a "fatter" distribution of IronPython, with more modules >>> attached, and a set of Linux binaries. (Besides, I hate having my >>> name associated with a dead project - Mike Foord and Jeff too, I would >>> suppose.) >> >> Linux-specific binaries shouldn't be needed anymore - they should work >> out of the box on Mono (although if you want to maintain the .NET >> 2.0/IronPython 2.7 builds, that might be useful). As for libraries, I >> would like to see the packaging tools like pip working on IronPython >> so you could just do `ipip install fepy` and get the bonus modules. >> >> - Jeff >> > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
