Attendees: Victor, Mark, Felix, Benoit

Agenda:

Review last week's action items:

everyone should look into the finalizer issues if they can

PythonException finalizer update

Notes:

finalizer issues?

not sure what this is referencing, Victor will talk to Benedikt

PythonException finalizer update blocked due to failure on 3.6

Benedikt gave Felix pointers he needed to get unblocked
Victor posted a pull that potentially fixes - this PR #1426

Victor has a bunch of breaking changes he wants to potentially land for 3.0

feature: ability to add mix-ins to .NET types with Python

solves multiple issues with dictionary conversions
avoids having to create a proxy class in C# that doesn't behave like a C# dictionary
allows you to create a class that works as a dictionary in both Python and C#
fairly mature, possibly can land before 3.0

feature: change overload resolution to whatever dynamic does in C#

solves problem where overloads behave in a surprising way
barely a proof-of-concept (not even tested/validated/etc)

feature: ability to change base class
others

Victor has many open PRs

https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet/pulls/lostmsu
please review

Have we tested on Apple Silicon

no
Benoit can test
Travis? do we have automated testing on Mac? we do, AMD64 only
we don't have a good debugger for 64-bit ARM
Unity will need Apple Silicon support by November to make our Python package officially supported
potentially lots of work

Native code page still there?

no, got removed

Action Items:

Victor to make a list of breaking changes in his branch that could land for 3.0 and discuss with Benedikt
Felix to review #1426
Victor to update Improve Python <-> .NET exception integration
Victor to update https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet/pull/1133 and check with Benedikt that it's still good to land for 3.0
Benoit to test on Apple Silicon & derisk

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Mark Visser

Senior Dev Manager, M&E

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