[Python-Dev] Milestones in IronPython

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org> wrote:
>> We reached an important milestone in the IronPython project this week
>> with the release of IronPython 2.0 beta 4.  But it's not our code that
>> makes this release so remarkable -- it's yours, the Python developers.
>>  For the first time, Microsoft is including the standard Python
>> library as part of what you can download from CodePlex.  Previously,
>> users of IronPython who wanted to make use of the urllib module (to
>> give just one example) would have to download the CPython distribution
>> separately and then fiddle with the bits on the disk to make them work
>> together.  That is no longer the case.
>>
>> Of course, this isn't any kind of great technical achievement -- but
>> it is legal and cultural progress here at Microsoft.  All of us
>> working on the IronPython and IronRuby projects are committed to
>> pulling the company in a more open source direction, so it's very
>> gratifying to see this happening.
>>
>
> Glad you were able to work out what you needed internally to see this
> happen, Curt!

Indeed, very good news. It made Google's internal open source list already. :-)

Congrats on the release, Curt and team!!

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