IronPython 1.0 Beta 1 released

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Jeremy Jones
Dec. 31, 2005 09:00 PM
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URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94082d26-e689-4f7f...

IronPython is a .NET implementation of Python, created by Jim Hugunin who is currently working for Microsoft. Jim didn't specify a date when to expect 1.0 final, but he did mention that he'd prefer to keep it under 10 beta releases. As always, I'm happy to see the continued emphasis of CPython compatibility with this project. Microsoft takes a continual beating for "not playing nicely with others", but I haven't seen anything with the IronPython project that would lend itself to such criticism. I haven't had a chance to install 1.0 yet. Maybe I'll get to that next year.... :-)

Jeremy Jones is a software engineer who works for Predictix. His weapon of choice is Python.

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Licensing: The elephant in the room
2006-01-02 18:14:28 webmaven [Reply | View]

The last time I looked, the IronPython license made it extremely doubtful that a non-trivial IronPython app written to take advantage of many of the .NET platform's features would be legal to distribute under the GPL or any other copyleft license.

To me, that's an open-and-shut case for 'not playing well with others', at least for the values of 'playing well' and 'others' that I tend to use.

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