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<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2>Hello IronPython community,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>we
have just released IronPython 0.9.4. The biggest change is implementation of
static compilation (IronPython.Hosting.Compiler), a component that compiles
multiple sources into the single executable.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>As a
response to requests we have been getting recently, we are also including an
IronPython tutorial with the 0.9.4 release. Check out the Tutorial
directory!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2>Since the .NET Frameworks 2.0 has released and is publicly available for
download, IronPython is now built and depends on the final release of .NET
Frameworks 2.0.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>More
improvements include:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>*
__del__ is supported on old style classes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>*
time.time() is fixed to report time correctly</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>*
few smaller parser fixes (try and print statement parsing)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>*
various module kinds (built-in, python module and "sys") now have the same
type</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>*
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2>ReflectOptimizer doesn't handle System.Single fix</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>*
string fixes - we added missing methods and fixed those that didn't work as
expected.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>We
also enabled some more regression tests to run. T</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>est_string runs
without changes and few with variety of changes to allow us to run the test
while we add missing features and fix bugs: test_str, test_set,
test_exceptions, test_grammar.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2>There are many of you who contributed to this release and we thank
you:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2>Nicholas Jacobson, Anthony Tarlano, Michael Shilman, Chris Trimble, Ray
Djajadinata</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>You
can download the 0.9.4 release from:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2><A
href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ba268a8e-0d79-4245-b14b-9a89395654da&displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ba268a8e-0d79-4245-b14b-9a89395654da&displaylang=en</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000
size=2>Thanks and keep in touch</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=384402716-03112005><FONT face=Verdana color=#800000 size=2>The
IronPython team</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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